Would you ever refer to sex as commerce or congress? (Spoiler alert for today’s puzzle)

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JMSA · 02/08/2025 11:14

Bloody NYT Connections and the woman who makes them up!
What absolute nonsense.

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Aznavour · 02/08/2025 19:04

ParmaVioletTea · 02/08/2025 18:35

Congress is quite normal in historical texts. And ditto for commerce. Clearly the puzzle setter is better read than the puzzlers.

Well, I guess that put us in our place. 😅 What a lovely addition to this thread. 😅

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JMSA · 02/08/2025 19:49

ParmaVioletTea · 02/08/2025 18:35

Congress is quite normal in historical texts. And ditto for commerce. Clearly the puzzle setter is better read than the puzzlers.

Here’s a connection for you: joyless, condescending, arrogant, haughty

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MadameCholetsDirtySecret · 02/08/2025 19:51

I didn’t get it too.

Arran2024 · 02/08/2025 19:53

I got them all today but only because I left this line to the end. I didnt understand commerce either.

CurlewKate · 02/08/2025 22:04

JMSA · 02/08/2025 19:49

Here’s a connection for you: joyless, condescending, arrogant, haughty

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Sorry-don’t get it. It’ll have to be today’s “just happened.”

Nonotlikethat · 02/08/2025 22:33

MsPulchritude · 02/08/2025 12:06

I don't mind when I don't get a connection/strand/mini, if it's down to some stupid Americism. I only mind when it's my own incompetence!

Americans don't call sex "commerce." I'm a 50-something American and have never heard this. I looked it up; it's an archaic euphemism.

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