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v. - Touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; Have at least three points in common with; Be intermediate between two taxonomic groups.

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  • It was their first time to osculate; neither of them knew who started it, they just ended up kissing each other.
  • These species osculate
  • Even those discussions which, at a first view, might seem to belong rather to natural theology, were deliberately assigned to their place after long experience in teaching, as...
  • That there are points on which the moral systems of men and nations osculate, is most true; that there should have been certain approximations on many most important...
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