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females

noun

plural of female

as in ladies

an adult female human being researchers are looking for females aged 50 to 70 to take part in the study

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Recent Examples of females Despite most of the country supporting the separation of biological males and females in sports, the vocal minority can be vicious. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026 The cloned females carried the exact same genome as the donor male (except for the Y chromosome). — Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026 The males die after a hookup; the females return to Lake Erie to lay their eggs. — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026 As the number of distractor calls increased, females got worse at picking the attractive call, took longer to decide, and were more likely to defer choosing within the 10-minute window altogether. — Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 Because of these characteristic trails, apple maggots are also known as railroad worms (the name is more commonly applied to the larvae and wormlike adult females of Phrixothrix beetles). — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026 The bears, which are normally solitary creatures, can be picky when choosing mates, and females are only in heat for one to three days each year. — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026 The victims include five 18-year-old males, five 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old females. — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 One 19-year-old male, four 18-year-old males, five 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old females were treated for injuries. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

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Griffith soon began courting 22-year-old Christina Mesmer, nicknamed Tina, who was considered one of the city’s most eligible young ladies.

— Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 14 Oct. 2026
His friends—these would have been the idle ladies of Moscow society, Countess Khomyakova and Princess Tuchkova and Countess Orlova and others in their circle.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026

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