lusting

verb

present participle of lust
as in copulating

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  1. copulating
  2. sleeping
  3. lying
  4. mating
  5. coupling
  6. fornicating
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  • While copulating, female praying mantises often kill their mates and eat them.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • And finally, wouldn’t being near-perfectly still for an hour make a pair of copulating octopuses ridiculously exposed to predators?
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of copulating
Verb
  • Humans have been sleeping on some sort of mattress for 77,000 years, beginning with leaves and twigs, then innovating through other plant materials and animal hair, eventually reaching today’s many, many foam offerings.
    — Jaklin Romine Oct. 15, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The last slide of the carousel features a video of himself rocking a sleeping newborn.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of sleeping
Verb
  • As for the lows, sweater weather will officially arrive for Charlotte, with lows near 40 degrees this weekend, and a chance for patchy frost for out-lying areas, forecasters say.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The fight was now about accusations of lying, whether the item was for sale, and what actually happened in the store.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of lying
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  • But though these chemicals are linked to mating in animal species, a link between pheromones and romantic attraction hasn’t been established in humans.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Wild turkeys can be particularly aggressive during mating season.
    — Elan Abrell, The Conversation, 22 July 2026
Definition of mating
Verb
  • Tatum won Love Island USA in July, coupling up with Bryce Alakai for the victory.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Oct. 2026
  • For the project Winter and her team tired coupling plasma with electrocatalysis.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of coupling
Verb
  • These are unhappy hedonists, boozing and fornicating for lack of fulfillment.
    — Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of fornicating
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