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sex

[seks] / sɛks /




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I stopped attending Mass once I began covering the church’s sex abuse scandals as a journalist.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Doctors may also need to interpret common Alzheimer’s tests differently for each sex, according to new Georgia State research, published in the journal Brain Communications.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026

First lady Melania Trump denied any connection with Jeffrey Epstein and his crimes on Thursday, calling online rumors of a supposed connection between her and the notorious sex trafficker “false smears.”

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026

After accounting for factors such as age, sex and symptoms of depression, the researchers found that higher vitamin D levels were associated with lower levels of tau protein years later.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides