consensual
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The video also surfaced on other platforms, including Meta-owned Facebook, where some posts used it to baselessly claim that the lawsuit was "fake" and the two had been involved in a "consensual relationship."
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
“But no one really looked at consensual relationships.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
Later, after a chaotic interlude of rebel rule and an uncertain transition, he was elected head of state as a post-conflict and consensual civil-society figure.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025
During the summer of 2003, he took a constitutional law class where they discussed the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the state’s ban on consensual gay sex in Lawrence v.
From Salon • Oct. 16, 2025
Given the blanket nature of the ruling, courts have found police encounters to be consensual in truly preposterous situations.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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