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
Like seahorses, females are larger and males brood eggs, Short says.
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Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
Boys and girls had similar overall rates of inhalant use, but females had substantially higher odds of developing inhalant use disorder, which the researchers suggested could be related to prior findings that girls may progress more quickly from experimentation to problematic substance use.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
This, owing to the fact that egg-laden females stage in thick cover before and during the spawn.
—John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
Gorilla families are usually made up of one male, several females and the juveniles.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Adult females are typically bigger than males.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026
Turtles maintain a home range, and females often return to the same area to lay their eggs.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
The birds, three females and one male, are currently back in their enclosure for monitoring after being released for 15 days earlier this year.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
The group’s older females do sometimes kill pups that aren’t their own.
—Big Think, 8 May 2026
Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
Boys and girls had similar overall rates of inhalant use, but females had substantially higher odds of developing inhalant use disorder, which the researchers suggested could be related to prior findings that girls may progress more quickly from experimentation to problematic substance use.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
This, owing to the fact that egg-laden females stage in thick cover before and during the spawn.
—John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
Gorilla families are usually made up of one male, several females and the juveniles.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Adult females are typically bigger than males.
—Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 14 May 2026
Turtles maintain a home range, and females often return to the same area to lay their eggs.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
The birds, three females and one male, are currently back in their enclosure for monitoring after being released for 15 days earlier this year.
—Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 11 May 2026
The group’s older females do sometimes kill pups that aren’t their own.
—Big Think, 8 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for females
Noun
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This disdain for empathy often leads to the conclusion that women’s political participation is a problem, because the little ladies will insist on voting for the wrong candidates and policies.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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Those who stayed in attendance — including James Franco and Jordan Firstman — championed Schoenbrun and their leading ladies.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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Like the book and its film, Beaches traces a friendship between Cee Cee Bloom (Vosk) and Bertie White (Barrett) — two women who move from childhood pen pals to roommates, rivals and lifelong confidantes before their soaring story ends in devastating loss.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
20 May 2026
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Roughly a mile away as the crow flies is the site of what once was known as Mills College, which was a private, four-year liberal-arts college for women.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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“Females.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/females. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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