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female

[fee-mayl] / 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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Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a fertility doctor in the Bay Area, estimates that about 30% of her female patients are already taking peptides when they walk into her office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The country should have more female legislators because the country’s legislatures should represent the country.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Novita, a female estimated to be three to four years old, remains at the Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation centre in Indonesia's Palangkaraya after being rescued last month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

She started researching anger after suspecting her female clients' suppression of it was the root cause of some of their physical conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

To put that in perspective—World War II ended eleven years before the first female pilot for British Airways was born.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

It said there was on average a 10% to 12% performance gap between males and females in running distances up to the marathon.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 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

They stuck needles full of medicine into the female chickens, so the females wouldn’t get sick and die.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata




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