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intercourse

[in-ter-kawrs] / ˈɪn tərˌkɔrs /




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She followed all the old wives’ tales—including “drugging” her husband with supplements, timing intercourse, and eating acidic foods—in an attempt to maximize the odds that her third child would be a daughter.

From Slate May 7, 2024

Emergency contraception - including emergency contraceptive pills and copper-bearing intrauterine devices - can prevent about 95% of pregnancies when taken within five days of intercourse, the WHO says.

From BBC May 31, 2023

The WHO defines infertility as a disease of the male or female reproductive system that is defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.

From Reuters Apr. 4, 2023

Defined as the inability of an individual to conceive within 12 months of engaging in regular unprotected intercourse, infertility impacts at least 186 million people in the world today.

From Salon Mar. 23, 2023

“Should our whole intercourse consist of an exchange of compliments? Ma foi!”

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The imagination, however, of the reader pictures to itself a man who could hardly have been a Consul at any time—one silent, lonely, uncouth, and altogether separate from the pleasant intercourses of life.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope

He threw out a reserve, encysted in which he grew to maturity unaffected by the intercourses that modify the maturity of others into the thing we call a man. 

From Shelley; an essay by Francis Thompson

He declares, not only in his official communications here, but in his private intercourses with the members of the committee, that this clause is indispensably necessary to the security and negotiability of these demand notes.

From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman

Yet to me it seemed that the lads actually sought to avoid these casual intercourses.

From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg

There is in mankind a universal contract implied in all their intercourses....

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman




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