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the series of social engagements shared by a couple looking to get married a series of Rococo paintings in which the lovemaking of French aristocrats is depicted with erotic playfulness

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Recent Examples of lovemaking Early on, the director preferred portraying heterosexual lovemaking. Carlos Aguilar, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025 The scene — shot long before the days of intimacy coordinators — goes on for quite some time, and features both actors in the nude (almost — there were modesty coverings out of view) being quite vigorous in their simulated lovemaking. Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025 Always sick, always breathless, his lovemaking constantly interrupted by his coughing or his guts. Daniel Mason, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 For all of Labour’s lovemaking to the union bosses over the past few months, the strikes persist. Samantha Conti, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for lovemaking
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lovemaking
Noun
  • Ironically, stiff upper lips seem to have almost vanished as both sexes burst into tears if anything either lovely or lousy happens to them.
    Jilly Cooper, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The differences in longevity between the sexes were much more pronounced in the wild than in zoos for both mammals and birds, as there were fewer stressors, such as harsh climates and predators, in zoos, the study said.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The feeling of dating is refreshing for the politician.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2025
  • People are even skipping human dating altogether in favor of AI boyfriends and girlfriends.
    Myisha Battle, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There are alignments of anemia with some of the early modern symptoms of green sickness—though very few people today are likely to think anemia is caused by a blockage of bodily humors curable by intercourse.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 Sep. 2025
  • One 2024 survey found that about 60 percent of college students reported having had vaginal intercourse; a 2022 Pew Research survey reported that more than half of all adults under 30 were in a relationship at the time.
    Molly Langmuir, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Keaton and Pacino had an on-again-off-again romance for years.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The pilot has moments both sweet and funny, and sets up the possibility of romance amongst the characters, as well as further high jinks from a rotating cast of license seekers and citizens ignorant of the requirements for a Real ID.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Since these ticks are parthenogenetic, meaning an individual female can lay eggs without mating, essentially cloning herself, male ticks are rare.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This pattern, called assortative mating, means that when parents with overlapping genetic risks have children, those risks can combine and accumulate.
    Santhosh Girirajan, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Bella and Edward become closer, our young heroine not only romanticizes the vampire's ethereal good looks, but also the dominance and constant surveillance of his courtship.
    USA Today, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • After a chilly summer courtship, Governor Kathy Hochul, a hypercautious moderate, warmly endorsed him.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The move could also further strain trade relations between China and the Netherlands, following years of restrictions on Dutch company ASML's exports of advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Following up on Brazil as the country of honor at this year’s Marché du Film in Cannes, the RioMarket organized a series of events as part of the France-Brazil Season 2025, celebrating 200 years of diplomatic relations with a reciprocal cultural exchange between the two countries.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Lovemaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lovemaking. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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