1
as in slept
to engage in sexual intercourse
cats conceive almost every time they mate
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Adjective
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The government has promised to promote more flexible working environments and other measures that would help married couples to balance work and parenting, especially in rural areas where family values tend to be more conservative and harder on women.—
Alix Martichoux,
The Hill,
15 June 2025 -
The bill would reshape the federal student loan system and includes one change from the House bill that, if not adjusted, could lead to higher payments for married couples who have borrowed student loans.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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The figures include Abigail Abbot Bailey, an eighteenth-century New Englander whose efforts to leave her abusive husband, Asa, were hindered not just by strictures against divorce but also by the prevailing attitudes toward conjugal desire.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2024
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The female-nude painting hanging over her conjugal bed satirizes a freaky tendency that rocks her marital arrangement — an unsettling tour de force from Breillat.—
Armond White,
National Review,
26 June 2024
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“Mated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mated. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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