carnal
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He told me, “Hey carnal, I’m going to invite you to be on my album.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
But for all his uses of food as a source of carnal provocation and capitalist fracturing, Bong also allows food to be the root of love and community.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
Sudan Archives — the songwriter, singer and violinist Brittney Denise Parks — juggles the many conflicting pressures and aspirations of being young, Black, female, artistic, carnal, career-minded and social on “Natural Brown Prom Queen.”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
“Julia” makes much of Child’s embrace of the sensual — French food and wine, and carnal pleasure — and the journey is told most convincingly through snapshots.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021
Long centuries seemed to show that heaven was indifferent whether human souls or carnal pleasures held superior rank.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
Vocabulary lists containing carnal
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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