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Awareness and use of new and newly prominent terms increase every day. The sharing of pronouns is increasingly commonplace. Pansexual, omnisexual, nonbinary, and dozens of other identifying terms have become mainstays in social media bios and general discourse. 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class="word-item__content"> <h2 class="word-item__title"> <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/skoliosexual/" data-linkid="dggm5o"> skoliosexual </a> </h2> <div class="word-item__entry"> <p> Someone who is skoliosexual is sexually attracted to people… </p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="word-item"> <div class="word-item__media"> <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/pansexual/" data-linkid="dggm5o" > <img loading="lazy" src="https://www.dictionary.com/e/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/20210331_pansexual_800x800.png" class="350x350" alt="Black background with illustration of the pansexual flag (pink, yellow and blue stripes)" /> </a> </div> <div class="word-item__content"> <h2 class="word-item__title"> <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/gender-sexuality/pansexual/" data-linkid="dggm5o"> pansexual </a> </h2> <div class="word-item__entry"> <p> Pansexual refers to the sexual orientation of someone who is… </p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="word-item"> <div 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