sex
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The twins are just two weeks old and are currently unnamed as keepers do not yet know their sex.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The document emphasizes marriage as a requirement for sex, and gives a nod to the “success sequence” of completing school, finding gainful employment, getting married, and then having children.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Regulations dating to 1975 permit separate teams by sex “where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
While Erika decries “retro sex negativity,” Elliot stammers, “My peers have not been well-served growing up in a time where nothing feels safe or OK.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The slight gracelessness of my walk, which Dr. Luce had commented on, predisposed me to join die graceless sex.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
Beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, America embraced equality among races and between the sexes as overriding policy goals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
No one disputes that there are physical differences between the sexes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The researchers also noted that men generally have higher tyrosine levels than women, which may help explain part of the long observed difference in average lifespan between the sexes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Strict segregation between sexes was relaxed, as boys and girls worked, giggled, and played alongside one another.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
The pups, who are yet to be named or sexed, will begin emerging from the den at around three months old before taking their first exploratory swims.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
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
The book is sexed: on your left you have a verso, in the middle your gutter, and to the right your recto.
From Slate ● May 8, 2012
Pupiferous: applied to that generation of plant lice which produces sexed individuals.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Two types of in-ovo sexing technology are currently being used in Europe, with more in development.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
Meanwhile, commercially viable, in-ovo sexing technologies already exist in Germany and France.
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
