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female

[fee-meyl] / ˈfi meɪl /
ADJECTIVE
having the qualities or characteristics of a woman
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


ADJECTIVE
of the sex that produces offspring
Synonyms
STRONGEST
childbearing offspring-bearing


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Osborne also said she is treated as "one of the lads" in the weighing room, and has never experienced sexism and misogyny unlike other female jockeys, including Bryony Frost.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The first female White House chief of staff, Wiles has been widely credited with driving Trump's second presidency forward behind the scenes.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

Kelly Lange worked for several years as an airborne radio traffic reporter before becoming a groundbreaking female nightly news anchor for the NBC station here and a guest host for the NBC network.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

But the sale helped give way to something far more enduring: a network of female alumni who would go on to build companies of their own.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Her confidence, theatricality, and the ease with which she inhabited both male and female characters had drawn comparisons to the great Sarah Bernhardt herself.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

When wild females mated with them, they produced no viable offspring, gradually driving the population toward collapse.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

While the three male wild dogs successfully completed their extraordinary journey, two of the three females died.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Three days after the Sept. 11 attacks, I walked into my office at an Episcopalian refugee resettlement organization in New Haven, Conn. There sat five females colleagues with their heads covered in hijabs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

In running distances up to the marathon, there is on average a 10-12% performance gap between males and females.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Death in childbirth became a major hazard for human females.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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