consensual

Example Sentences

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“But no one really looked at consensual relationships.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

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

“The only evidence of our policy was a declaration that said, ‘Yes, reasonable suspicion is what we require when we go beyond a consensual encounter.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2025

What happened was legal in the UK and consensual.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2025

Accordingly, Bostick was not really “seized” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and the subsequent search was purely consensual.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander