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[seks] / sɛks /




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The models accounted for age, sex, and diabetes type.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Readings include a former president’s lecture about gender at Harvard, as well as the school’s own reports on its legacy of slavery and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s connections to the university.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Hines, who has a background as a sex crimes prosecutor, is running against Mike Bouchard Jr. for an open seat in Michigan’s 10th District in the Detroit suburbs.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

Still, the results remained broadly consistent when researchers accounted for factors including age, sex, previous fractures, previous falls, and average calcium intake from food.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The international master title, open to both sexes, ranks higher than Sivanandan's current accolades - the woman grandmaster and woman international master titles.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Take Iowa, which for nearly 40 years required all appointive boards and commissions—from county library boards to licensing bodies—to maintain balance between the sexes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The carcasses include elephants of different ages and sexes, suggesting the deaths are not limited to a single family or demographic.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

No one disputes that there are physical differences between the sexes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

They wanted to promote equality between the sexes by granting women property rights, access to education, opportunities for employment, and, most importantly, by giving them the right to vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

The space and resources dedicated to roosters at animal sanctuaries are often devoted to backyard chickens that were improperly sexed.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

"Lyra is coping well with first-time motherhood and the pup, who's yet to be sexed, also appears healthy and alert," Mr Brown said.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022

Last year, a paper published in Scientific Reports showed that, contrary to prior understanding, softshell turtles possess sex chromosomes, which means that they can be sexed using DNA analysis.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 24, 2018

A series of swift, scientific maneuvers followed: The researchers measured, sexed and appraised the animal.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2017

Individuals smaller than 100 mm. ordinarily could not be sexed accurately and are shown as open bars.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by John M. Legler

In a statement, the group said that smaller European hatcheries were better positioned to adopt in-ovo sexing and that American producers want to use it.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

Turpen says the biggest obstacle lies in developing a technology that is not only capable of rapidly and accurately sexing chicks, but is also readily affordable to consumers and hatcheries across the nation.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2021

That might in part be because of more accurate ways of sexing skeletons.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2018

Turtle sexing is key for research purposes, and also for conservationists who are trying to pair mates.

From The Verge ● Jul. 29, 2017

Having discussed with my neighbour in the country the difficulty of sexing her ducklings, I now know, as Donne surely did, that sexing can be far from straightforward.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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