as in extracurricular
relating to or being a sexual encounter or relationship between a married person and someone other than their spouse
adulterine fiction often portrays the illicit lovers sympathetically
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Adjective
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Even younger kids can feel pressured to follow a certain path or pursue a certain extracurricular activity.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
20 Mar. 2025 -
In February, a warning from a South Texas school district that agents at checkpoints might board school buses carrying schoolchildren to extracurricular activities panicked parents in the region.—
Suzanne Gamboa,
NBC News,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Nor did anyone blink when Shonda Rhimes set Scandal within the White House of a wishy-washy, adulterous GOP President who’d unwittingly stolen an election.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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The new version strips down the book’s narrative, concentrating on the plight of an adulterous airline pilot (Cage) who’s forced to land a plane after all the good Christians are called up to heaven.—
Emily Heller,
Vulture,
12 July 2024
Adjective
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The famous composer’s Y chromosome was inherited not from the common ancestor of all the van Beethovens living today, but from an unknown father—perhaps the result of an extramarital affair in the generations before he was born.—
ByAndrew Curry,
science.org,
6 Mar. 2025
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In 2009, Woods fell from grace after numerous extramarital affairs came to light.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Adulterine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulterine. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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