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female

[fee-meyl] / 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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While female curves and volumes offer her a traditional dressmaking structure, women in the present tense, ego and id, are not part of this vision.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

The Kim regime is diversifying its revenue stream by sending more female workers, said Ward of the Sejong Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

"She has an incredible way of articulating the female experience," she says.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

It arrives as audiences and filmmakers signal an openness to revisiting stories about women long shaped by men accustomed to processing female identity through a saint-sinner binary.

From Salon Sep. 18, 2026

In the spring of 1850, Grimes had attended a spirit circle led by a female medium in Auburn, New York.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

While the three male wild dogs successfully completed their extraordinary journey, two of the three females died.

From BBC Sep. 14, 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

In other sports, like basketball, women use a smaller ball, and in athletics sprint hurdles are lower for females.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

However, males and females living within the same bay depended on many of the same local food sources.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

“Yes. Did you hear about coffins...and females singing...and the lines forming to get into Hell? Did you?”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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