sex
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I've been a sex educator for six years.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Jurors cleared Combs of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
But one night, desperate to practice our steps with the gentler sex, we put on our suits, stole out of our dormitory, and made it to the dance-hall.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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
Presumably, both sexes have been players in such nightclub frivolities as “helium balloon singalongs, psychedelic projections and nursery-style games with building blocks”—amusements that were popular in the 1960s at Cerebrum, a club in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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
It was being circumambulated by thousands upon thousands of praying pilgrims, both sexes, and every size, shape, color, and race in the world.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
Alternation of generations: where a species that occurs in both sexes periodically produces only parthenogenetic females; the latter, in turn, producing the sexed form; occurs in Cynipidae and some Homoptera: see heterogeny.
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
Short of that, though, other non-invasive egg sexing technologies have also been developed in Europe.
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
