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gender

[jen-der] / ˈdʒɛn dər /
NOUN
grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness
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Brad Case, chief residential economist at Homes.com, said what he describes as a “single-buyer tax” is really about income structure, not gender.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

No details have been revealed by the force about the age or gender of the person arrested, or where the property that was searched was.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

All these works are overshadowed by Morris’s gender identity, which is no longer as perplexing as it was at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Singh carefully notes modern Punjabi music has reproduced sexist tropes and reinforced traditional norms around gender.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

And anyway, terms like homosexual or heterosexual made no sense if you didn’t identify as one gender or another.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater



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