Matings

Since these matings produced no offspring, the population was gradually reduced. ❋ Post (2011)

Dynaformer, the stallion whose matings to La Ville Rouge produced Barbaro and his brothers, has a stud fee of $150,000 per live foal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When sex is so rapid, evolution favours multiple matings with any individual encountered. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And there's also a widespread sense that e-encounters can "distract" from offline soul-matings. ❋ Marian Salzman (2011)

He chattered from the other end of the line about births and matings in his own pack, physically incapable of letting someone else enter the conversation until he had to take a breath. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

While I was studying the mating of the land snail Oxyloma retusum, I observed the matings of 20 pairs of snails. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

Peter and Rosemary Grant have recorded the matings and offspring of generations of Galápagos finches over 36 years, their traits, genetics, rates of evolution, what they eat, what songs they sing, weather, flora, predators, competitors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Answer: memories, memories only, of things which had ceased to be, like memories of matings accomplished, of feasts forgotten, of desires that were the ghosts of desires, flaring, flaming, burning, yet unrealized in achievement of easement and satisfaction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fact that only 3% of duck offspring are born of forced matings suggests that females are indeed winning this battle of the sexes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He likens such men to "course brutes in the countryside" and warns that children produced in these matings are likely to be weak and sickly. 107 ❋ Unknown (2008)

Any early matings between an expanding human subpopulation and a receding Neandertal population would have left a few traces in our gene pool that would have been passively hauled up into higher numbers by time and the mere growth of human populations. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now only the aft matings were still attached, and Atlantis's nose pointed beyond the overhang of Michael's roof. ❋ Jack Varnell (2010)

The main tank was moored to Michael by the same matings that in gentler times would have gripped solid fuel boosters. ❋ Jack Varnell (2010)

She laughed again, for she had seen the cooperihawks in their rounds of spring matings, which were frequent and undiscriminating. ❋ R. Daniel Lester (2010)

Her attention was directed towards the diversity in the frequencies of consanguineous matings in various communities and their possible consequences. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile in America even northwestern Euroepan genes have been watered down by matings with people with ancestry from other parts of Europe and (to a lesser extent) with Africans, Hispanics, and native Americans, hence regression toward the mean has taken over. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thinking further, it only makes sense that some such matings should still be possible, otherwise certain observed speciations or differences in DNA would not have been possible. ❋ Unknown (2009)

B: "hey [Yankee], [wanna root]?" N: "like mating mates?" B: "[bonza]" ❋ Yankee & Jelly Bean (2020)

"[G'day] [Barry], [how are you] mate?" ❋ Lucifer Is My Bitch (2021)

If [your Mother] and Father had not participated in [mating] with each other, you would not be [alive]. ❋ The Facts Matter (2019)

"What's [goin' on] mate?!" ❋ Daniel (2004)

The word "Mate" can be used in a variety of ways, from greetings to flip-offs to sarcasm. A week ago I was cycling home from work and this twat of a driver nearly knocked me off because he was desperately trying to get through the traffic lights. He called me a "Twat" and I shouted "Fuck off mate!" at him. This is just one example. Here is a list of examples and situations in which "Mate" may be used: Greeting: "Hello mate!" Sarcasm: "Mate that was fucking orgasmic" Endearment: "Mate [you're a legend]." [Flippancy]: "Alright mate [keep your hair on]" ❋ Hen2 (2015)

1. [This is] [my mate] [Eddie]. 2. This is my mate Eddie. ❋ Louis (2001)

1: (friendly [greeting]) [How ya goin] mate. 2: ([threat]) I wouldn't try that if I were you,...mate! ❋ JoffaR (2016)

"[Goin] [town] with some mates' ❋ Micheal 'jamooonnn' Jackson (2016)

andy: Did you see [west ham] yesterday. [Shaane]:erm... [No mate] west ham are shit. ❋ Shaane (2006)

[g'day mate] how r [ya]? ❋ Phill (2003)