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XXX

American  
[three-eks, trip-uhl-eks] / ˈθriˈɛks, ˈtrɪp əlˈɛks /
Symbol.
  1. Sometimes 3X a variety of confectioners' sugar.

  2. Sometimes XXXX (used to refer to hard-core pornography.)


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Later in the email, the sender asks: "How's LA? Have you found me some new inappropriate friends?" before signing off "see ya A xxx".

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

Jonathan Weisman reported from Chicago and Maya King from xxx.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Outlays on state and local government construction projects fell 0.4%, xxx federal government spending plunged 4.3%.

From Reuters • Nov. 1, 2021

Now he and Sullivan are facing off for hockey’s biggest prize, starting the best-of-seven series on xxx.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2017

"Gulielmus Caxton natus in sylvestri regione Cantiae; in Flandria, Brabantia, Hollandia, Zelandia xxx annis cum domina Margareta, Burgundiae ducissa, regis Edwardi IV. sorore vixit."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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