feminine
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This idea proposes that the evolution of larger human brains occurred alongside changes that made the human skeleton less robust and more physically feminine compared with those of earlier ancestors.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Anyone who's listened to Rodrigo's first two albums, 2021's Sour and 2023's Guts, knows the singer has endured a few calamitous heartbreaks, approaching them with a mix of anguish, confusion and feminine rage.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Rowbottom’s willingness to move toward culturally uncomfortable material is central to her work, he stressed, treating so-called lowbrow or feminine cultural obsessions not as guilty pleasures, but as material worthy of literary merit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
In Hollywood films and literary tropes, spiders come ideologically loaded and are frequently coupled with the feminine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
It was a feminine room in a house where only men lived.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Although made with contemporary means, Hill’s smeary feminines recall the sharper-edged experiments of Cubists and Futurists.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2016
The nouns belonging here are chiefly masculines and feminines.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)
Masculine nouns make regular feminines, when their termination is changed to ess: as, hunter, huntress; prince, princess; lion, lioness.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Getting clear, at length, of this crowd of feminines, "presto" was the word, and away we bowled along one of the most beautiful roads I have ever seen.
From Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by Macaulay, W. Hastings
The masculines far outnumber the feminines, and the neuters contain only ēage, eye and ēare, ear.
From Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary by Smith, C. Alphonso (Charles Alphonso)
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