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male

[mayl] / meɪl /
ADJECTIVE
masculine, manly
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Scientists studied a group of adult male African lions after animal care staff added whole carcasses every nine days to an existing feeding routine designed around periods of eating and fasting.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

And sports bettors tend to skew male, although more women are getting into the game, according to Morgan Stanley research.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Barr comes off as a caricature of the “great male narcissists,” as David Foster Wallace memorably smeared postwar novelists such as Norman Mailer and John Updike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Earlier this year, a report by the Sutton Trust found cricket to be one of the most elitist jobs in the country, with 59% of male professionals and 50% of women privately educated.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The male technicians at the factory were angry.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

He loved the rudimentary males he found embedded in the females of one particular species—precisely the kind of weird transitional form his theory of evolution would depend upon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She said the males eventually left her and she eventually got up and left the car park.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

They breathe directly through their skin, and males take responsibility for carrying and raising the young.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

It said there was on average a 10% to 12% performance gap between males and females in running distances up to the marathon.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Most eight-year-old males begin to spend time away from their mothers, traveling with the big males, learning the sorts of things they need to know when they are grown up.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall




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