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male

[mayl] / meɪl /
ADJECTIVE
masculine, manly
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It has also rejected proposals to abolish taasib, a rule that can require female orphans without brothers to share their inheritance with male relatives, including distant ones.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The 43-year-old male driver of the vehicle was detained by civilians, Mason said, before being arrested by police, who found a knife in his car.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Alonzo and Dale named the gallery after their grandmother, Della Brockman, and designed a logo that combined the male and female gender symbols with the letter B and an arrow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

The male officer remains in hospital and is in a stable condition, the force added.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Recent scientific evidence, such as DNA testing, confirms that Jefferson or some male in his family fathered the children of Sally Hemings.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

Together, these findings revealed that testosterone, which is generally more abundant in males, influences the speed of skin cell maturation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The BBC understands a row with other males had taken place beforehand.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“When it came to males, he could be a little, well, aggressive,” Gina Davis, a Pasadena schoolteacher, said in a phone interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

He loved the rudimentary males he found embedded in the females of one particular species—precisely the kind of weird transitional form his theory of evolution would depend upon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

By breeding normal flies with mutants—mating white-eyed males with red-eyed females, say—Morgan and his students could track the inheritance of traits across multiple generations.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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