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Noun
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Raising awareness and accepting that autistic children of both sexes should be allowed special accommodations at school, such as taking tests in a separate room or wearing headphones.—
Matt Villano,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025 -
The changes came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize two unchangeable sexes, male and female.—
Kaitlyn Schwanemann,
NBC news,
31 Mar. 2025
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American society and our relations with other societies are driven by the competition/conflict choice.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2025
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The concerns over trade relations stem from a history of tariffs, sanctions, and disputes that have strained the ties between the world's two largest economies.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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Villanueva, his instincts honed by his decades of service as a lawman, intuits that the only way a human being can reasonably incur a rug burn is via high-friction hotel room coitus with a 250-pound man.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2025
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Adding to these racial fetish undertones is a Black family servant whose coitus with Lucy’s soon-to-be sister-in-law (a white woman with box braids) is also constantly on display, leaving her to pleasure herself when he’s called away.—
Nicholas Bell,
SPIN,
31 July 2024
Noun
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That’s just not how intercourse or human bodies work.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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With that said, females are more likely to experience dyspareunia (pain with intercourse).—
Laura Young,
Verywell Health,
17 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Reynolds, who moonlights as co-owner of Welsh soccer club Wrexham A.F.C., turned up alongside super-creator Taylor Sheridan (whose own athletics usually involve cattle), NBA investor Mark Cuban and former Obama commerce secretary Penny Prtizker.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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In this photo illustration a American electronic commerce and cloud computing company Amazon logo is seen on an Android mobile device with People’s Republic of China flag in the background.—
Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2025
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The first-generation kid keeping his personal life from his parents isn’t new but it is complicated by race, sexuality, and the seemingly perfect life of Naveen’s sister Arundhathi — whose storyline feels like an afterthought, but one was understandably written in to utilize co-star, Sunita Mani.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2025
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The Tony-winning show, with a rock score by Duncan Sheik and a book by Steven Sater, is based on an 1891 German play of the same name and delves into a surprising variety of mature themes about teens discovering their own sexuality.—
Liz Rothaus Bertrand,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2025
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