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Once the toxin took effect, males mounted the females and copulated for between 40 and 75 minutes, without the risk of being gobbled up.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
On his shirt, little hippos copulated against a pastel-blue cotton background.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Advertisement The lawsuit alleges Harris comforted the boy and during the encounter began forcibly orally copulating the teen.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Its first appearance in American print resulted from an 1846 Missouri court case in which a man stood accused of copulating with a horse.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
On his shirt, little hippos copulated against a pastel-blue cotton background.
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Advertisement The lawsuit alleges Harris comforted the boy and during the encounter began forcibly orally copulating the teen.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Its first appearance in American print resulted from an 1846 Missouri court case in which a man stood accused of copulating with a horse.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copulate
sleep
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Babies can spend up to 18 hours a day sleeping, meaning their contact with mattresses is prolonged and intimate.—
Arlene Blum,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Those sofas benches can also be used as single beds, each offering a sleeping area of 80 x 34 in (203 x 86 cm).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 June 2025
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“Copulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copulate. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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