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Somewhere in the recesses of my mind I must have stored the information that defines the term osculating element, but I luckily didn't need to fetch it.

The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992

They were unfazed by the preponderance of same-sex couples holding hands, and all smooching was "disgusting" or "mushy" -- regardless of the gender of the "old people" (anyone over 22) doing the osculating.

Michele Somerville: Gay Catholic Ministry and Straight Pride 2010

I think where it might hurt though is in American's support for continuing this war and for osculating it.

CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2009 2009

Mr. Snow came, no doubt, in hopes of advertising the mood of press perestroika that his hire — that of a press employee, even if from the White House – osculating Fox News Network — was meant to symbolize.

The Smarmies of the Night 2006

Mr. Snow came, no doubt, in hopes of advertising the mood of press perestroika that his hire — that of a press employee, even if from the White House – osculating Fox News Network — was meant to symbolize.

The Smarmies of the Night 2006

Mr. Snow came, no doubt, in hopes of advertising the mood of press perestroika that his hire — that of a press employee, even if from the White House – osculating Fox News Network — was meant to symbolize.

The Smarmies of the Night 2006

Then he dramatically presented the new, osculating elements (as he called them) of our instantaneous trajectory.

The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992

They do that by shifting the bodies into eccentric orbits osculating Secunda's, then wangling them into planetary orbit at the far end.

Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

This last order may be termed the 'marriage of curves,' cemented by the osculating circle, or 'wedding-ring;' and when two nations have contact of the third order, they have formed a very close alliance, and by calculation we can obtain the _radius of curvature_, or size of the wedding-ring, by means of which they may be united.

The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. P. Hampson

Therefore let us have no lifting of the curtain upon a tableau of the united lovers, backgrounded by defeated villainy and derogated by the comic, osculating maid and butler, thrown in as a sop to the Cerberi of the fifty-cent seats.

Cabbages and Kings 1904