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gender

[jen-der] / ˈdʒɛn dər /
NOUN
grammatical rules applying to nouns that connote sex or animateness
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Last year, ECB chair Richard Thompson described the Taliban's oppression of women and girls as "gender apartheid".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

"This comes down to the gender differences between men and women," Qi said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Tyler Matthew Oyer: After working with your team for several years, I always say “every age, gender, and body type looks good in Thom Browne.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

On Tuesday, the gender and sexuality studies program is sponsoring a town hall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Like the WASP, they didn’t receive any real recognition for their service, but at least this can’t be blamed on gender discrimination—the men who flew for them didn’t get any recognition either.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Gender-responsive policing recognizes that people of different genders can experience crime, victimization, and interactions with law enforcement differently.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

If the genders were reversed and your husband was the one with $8 million saved for retirement and had sold a business, the public and private perception of your relationship would likely be quite different.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

How did he gain the courage to write about people of other races, cultures and genders?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

It’s a growing demographic hitting both genders, driven in part by climbing divorce rates among older Americans and a rising number of adult children becoming alienated from their parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

The only children whose genders she hadn’t divined were her own, because it was bad luck for a mother to plumb the mysteries of her own womb.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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