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gender

[jen-der] / ˈdʒɛn dər /
NOUN
grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness
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"We were not going to know the gender."

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Familiar—that is to say cliched—accounts of bad men, power games and gender inequity sometimes make “Good Company” tough going.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Since then, though, succession has become a surprisingly powerful engine of gender equality in Congress.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

Some risk factors, such as family history, age, gender and race, cannot be changed.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

He declined to elaborate on their relationship, but encouraged everyone to kiss their pals, of all genders, with the vigor of an artist who is finally, truly, free.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

For those against shorts in the office the main reason, for both genders, was the concern over body shape and body hair.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

I do not assign genders to letter writers, but I do try to address all the options available to couples.

From MarketWatch Jun. 30, 2026

He didn’t cite examples, but one is the claim that there are 72 genders.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Many cultures on earth operated not with two genders but with three.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides



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