as in masculine
of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with men
the radio program offers both male and female perspectives on many common relationship issues
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Recent Examples of male
Essence, 9 Aug. 2025
Our panel of male and female testers evaluated each formula over a three-week period, assessing comfort, texture, tint, ease of blending, and overall wear throughout the day.
—Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
Images released by police show a male looking at the camera with his arms crossed and a face mask covering his chin.
—Isabel Van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
According to 2024 Pew Research, Black women are still leading academically, graduating from U.S. colleges and universities at higher rates than their Black male counterparts.
—Essence, 9 Aug. 2025
Our panel of male and female testers evaluated each formula over a three-week period, assessing comfort, texture, tint, ease of blending, and overall wear throughout the day.
—Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
During his six-win Saturday, Hernandez gave Baffert a fourth straight victory in the Grade III Best Pal Stakes for 2-year-old males, winning by 8¾ lengths on Desert Gate.
—Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
Images released by police show a male looking at the camera with his arms crossed and a face mask covering his chin.
—Isabel Van Brugen, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for male
Adjective
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Men who earned less than their female partner reported feeling less masculine and more inadequate, and those feelings were linked to lower relationship quality.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Like privacy, or the fact that women writers in slightly earlier centuries might have required a masculine alias to publish at all.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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How a 'Mad Dogs' concert film led to the Tedeschi Trucks Band Q: You guys definitely captured a bit of the magic.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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With a pair of catwalks jutting from the oval stage, the guys roam into the crowd, all while hitting their dance moves, and blending their upbeat pop anthems with the sappier ballads that made them into a heartthrob collective.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Ladies are asked to wear dresses, skirts, blouses, dress sweaters, or dress slacks, while gentlemen are required to wear a suit or sport coat, necktie, and dress pants.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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No gentleman’s agreement that Gibbs-White can move on in the future.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
Noun
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The wallet would end up going on a 151,000-mile odyssey across multiple states before a mechanic in Minnesota last month discovered that the obstacle that was preventing him from putting the vehicle's airbox back in place was — a man's leather wallet.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
18 Aug. 2025
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Drill sergeants—not therapy Faced with the ultimate in fitness standards, men and women throughout the military obsess over their weight and body shapes, experts say.—
Noelle Wiehe,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Aug. 2025
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Hey, weren't there two dudes at your school who looked a hell of a lot alike?—
Jordan Hoffman Updated,
EW.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Sandler’s ostensibly playing a cool dude, which on its surface isn’t a great fit, but his performance ends up kind of making sense after the big twist toward the end.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
30 July 2025
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“Male.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/male. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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