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joes

noun

plural of joe

as in guys

an adult male human being your average joe isn't a particularly big fan of the opera

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Those guys had first- and second-round talent, at least as determined by the 32 teams.

— Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
But Ben, Anton and I, not knowing what couldn’t be done, decided that three guys in their mid-twenties with no engineering background to speak of would be the ones to get this thing off the ground.

— Ronnen Harary, Fortune, 31 July 2026

Definition of guys

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This is consistent with the idea that solitary (and aggressively hormonal) males were more likely to die in natural traps, such as landslides or sinkholes, increasing the chance that their bones would be preserved over thousands of years.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
All these races are restricted to three-year-olds and mostly males run in them.

— Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of males

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Watching shoot-first combo guards go off for 30 in a summer-league game is great fun, but most of those dudes don’t get to play with a neon-green light in a game that matters.

— John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 July 2026
There’s a lot of dudes out here that would sell their soul for an uncomplicated yet complicated jam just like that.

— Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 July 2026

Definition of dudes

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There’s a resident big band that sets the tempo for dancing—there are even gentlemen hosts available for ladies—and a DJ rocks the small disco late into the night.

— Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
The ladies shimmered in champagne, gold and blush, while the gentlemen wisely remembered that the safest way to stand out at Miss Swift’s wedding was, in fact, not to.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026

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