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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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Two thirds of the Scottish unicorns are female.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Purdue, who holds the third fastest British female marathon time, believes the treadmill has been long misunderstood.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

When the female driver rolled down her car window, Bridges wrote, she asked who he was and he did the same.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

He’s malleable and clueless about a lot of things, including whether it’s appropriate to interpret a female colleague’s nervous vomiting as an indicator that she’s pregnant.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

“That’s enough for today,” said her climbing coach, a female commando from the Special Air Service.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

I’m trying to think of what Black females I’ve seen do Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Although their original goal was to understand the mechanisms behind skin renewal, the team unexpectedly discovered striking differences between females and males.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

They joined the four females already in their care.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

It’s a solution on a scale that only America could contemplate: launching an American Herd Rebuilding Program to increase the number and productivity of breeding females significantly by mixing in elements of the Australian herd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Less benevolently, he might monopolise particularly coveted foods and prevent lower-ranking males from mating with the females.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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