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- verb Present participle of
copulate .
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Examples
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I would have been one of the casualties of natural selection -- either killed by a wild boar during a hunt because I could not see it coming, or maimed by one of the bigger, stronger boys of the tribe before I reached the age where humans begin copulating -- and thus would have been unlikely to pass my defective genes on to future generations.
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Soon after Stonewall, The Joy of Sex, which only a few years earlier would have been banned as pornography for its hundreds of pictures of copulating couples, spent seventy weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and introduced millions of heterosexuals to sexual positions previously thought to be degraded and perverted.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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I think we need a pride parade and benefits for non-copulating, “just friends” house-mates!!!
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Male New Zealand mud snails Potamopyrgus antipodarum persist in copulating with asexual and parasitically castrated females.
Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem! Carin Bondar 2012
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Even agreeing with the original question, I will still be able to prevent consenting adults from copulating in my home and can choose to send my children to a school where such behavior is prohibited.
Wording the Questions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think we need a pride parade and benefits for non-copulating, “just friends” house-mates!!!
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Male New Zealand mud snails Potamopyrgus antipodarum persist in copulating with asexual and parasitically castrated females.
Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem! Carin Bondar 2012
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And "outside my window two suns/are copulating throwing shadows/that scald like acid."
Joan Gelfand: The Sugar Zone Is Bittersweet Joan Gelfand 2011
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And "outside my window two suns/are copulating throwing shadows/that scald like acid."
Joan Gelfand: The Sugar Zone Is Bittersweet Joan Gelfand 2011
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He is honored by many in this country and even some others, yet his natural sense of morality did not keep him from enslaving and sexually copulating a 14 year old little girl by the name of Sally Hemming.
Child Abuse Alert 2009
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