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woman

noun as in female human

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When I was in my mid-20s, a woman I can best describe as a sister-friend—the eldest of a large troop of neighborhood children, who babysat me and treated me like a younger sibling—came over to my mom’s house with her little boy, and he took a liking to Walter.

From Slate

These were classic symptoms of fear — or in my case, a searing crush on an amazing woman.

From Salon

“When we read about a woman who gives funny names to chimpanzees and then follows them into the bush, meticulously recording their every grunt and groom, we are reluctant to admit such activity into the big leagues,” the late biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote of the scientific world’s initial reaction to Goodall.

Sources told TMZ that the “Somebody Like You” singer, who spoke publicly in the past about marital tensions, allegedly found romance with another woman amid the separation.

A 55-year-old woman who stripped down to her bikini at a school board meeting last month in protest of the district’s policy on bathroom access by transgender students will not face criminal charges, according to authorities.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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