Word: mate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Like the male silverback gorilla, you were protecting your mate from competing males. In this case, you should have just beat your chest for a while and I’m sure David and his friends would have vacated your stomping ground. Plus, although seemingly strange, they wouldn’t have thought you were half as idiotic as they...
...grown son had turned their house into "boy central," enjoyed having two "daughters" last year, from Iceland and France: the three women loved cooking, trading intimacies and getting done up at the salon together. Another year, Richard Marshall, a singer in his church choir, finally found a musical soul mate in a German "daughter." He taught her the tune for Itsy Bitsy Spider, which they sang in the car, making up their own lyrics...
...forge diplomatic alliances, consolidate material fortunes, and produce legitimate heirs. Prince Charles, by fathering children with Diana while carrying on with someone else, showed just such cold-bloodedness once, but then went soft. Now, like some pathetic commoner cruising the member profiles on Match.com for a soul-mate who enjoys bird-watching and Scrabble, he wants fulfillment, compatibility, partnership. The next thing we know, he'll be on Dr. Phil discussing the Seven Secrets of Lasting Intimacy...
...rejects antiquated moral scruples and has no respect for problematically-assigned gender roles. On a similar note, keep heterosexual attendance at 50% or less—their dating pool is extremely large and their queer friends are really tired of hearing how difficult it is to find a decent mate...
...going to parties” or “hitting on” people, Harvard students can now dodge many of life’s nasty realities and electronically surf their way to states of bliss. The day has now arrived when a student can locate a potential mate on Thefacebook, judge his or her compatibility on Crimsoncupid, and take that person to a Corker-sponsored event. We should all be thankful for these greasings of the wheels of socialization...