intercourse

That meant LGBTQ+ and single people who historically had been shut out by definitions of infertility as a failure to conceive after six to 12 months of unprotected heterosexual intercourse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

These two were having intercourse, in the old-fashioned sense of the word.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

From dawn to dusk, observant Muslims the world over will refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual intercourse.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024

As he warned, the “logical consequences of … a decision which elevates commercial intercourse … to the same plane as has been previously reserved for the free marketplace of ideas, are far reaching indeed.”

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2023

No intercourse with Harriet possible but by note; no church for her on Sunday any more than on Christmas Day; and no need to find excuses for Mr. Elton’s absenting himself.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

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

From Fibble, D.D. by Tony Sarg

Our class distinctions, our artificial intercourses, our hypocritical professions, our deference for externals,—are they not the flimsiest pretences that ever were fashioned?

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever

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

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

There is a maxim extremely in vogue in the ordinary intercourses of society, which deserves to be noticed here, for the purpose of exposing it to merited condemnation.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by William Godwin