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male

[meyl] / meɪl /
ADJECTIVE
masculine, manly
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Its front has the look of a male torso and bears a peg box topped off with an elegantly carved male face.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

He’s not unaware that Meyers’ mostly 20-something male friends have — like many — romanticized the gritty abandon of lower Manhattan’s bygone literary scene and perhaps Ed’s tenuous place in it.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Two months later, on 5 August, one male and one female gibbon were transferred from Perundurai to Vikram's relative in Chennai, according to the Forest Department's investigation.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

The results showed that soybean oil increased OPA1 expression in male wild-type mice, but the same increase was not seen in females.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

Five of the pictures showcased the prize-winning Maine coons she’d raised over the years, most way before I was born, all male and each named after an archangel.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

“When the males interact with each other, you hear the thump thump thump of their paws.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Ages ranged from 14-74 for males and 17-82 for females.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

“Female raptors are most often larger than the males, but we are still not 100% sure.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Kobe Animal Kingdom put the four males and one female, all born in May at the facility, on public viewing last week.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

They were a family of three males and one female.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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