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
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  • There were no bedrooms, just sleeping alcoves set into the walls.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But the sight of a man sleeping atop the shelter next to a shopping cart caught the attention of onlookers, some of whom pulled out their phones to take pictures, as first reported by KTLA.
    — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of sleeping
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  • The low-angle light plays hobs with conventional solar panels lying flat on a lander, but Blue Origin's Power Tower is designed to exploit the near-eternal sunset/sunrise.
    — David Szondy October 07, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Then the day came, two weeks before a drop-dead deadline on a final draft of a novel, when the pain was yelp-out-loud excruciating in any position other than lying flat on the floor, or standing.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 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
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  • For the project Winter and her team tired coupling plasma with electrocatalysis.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The authors of the Nature Energy paper found a way around that obstacle by coupling two ultra-thin nickel-titanium films.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 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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“Lusting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lusting. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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