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as in wife
chiefly dialect
a female partner in a marriage
treated his woman to dinner at a five-star restaurant for their fifteenth wedding anniversary
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Recent Examples of woman
The woman now stands alone due to this week's double elimination of Sai and Cedrek.
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The lawyer showed the jurors screen grabs from text messages between the woman and Way.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
Water aerobics may help people—especially women and people over 45—lose weight and trim their waistlines, new research shows.
—Kristen Fischer, Health, 9 Apr. 2025
The women, all senior citizens by now, are skeptical at first.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The lawyer showed the jurors screen grabs from text messages between the woman and Way.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
Water aerobics may help people—especially women and people over 45—lose weight and trim their waistlines, new research shows.
—Kristen Fischer, Health, 9 Apr. 2025
The women, all senior citizens by now, are skeptical at first.
—Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for woman
Noun
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No, the nice lady at the bar does not want to be lectured on the virtues of the credit-invoice mechanism.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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In the lawsuit filed Friday, Susman Godfrey is being represented by lawyers from Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP — the firm second lady Usha Vance previously worked for.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Apr. 2025
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Even with that change from the initial trial, which ended in a hung jury, jurors split on a charge relating to Masterson’s former longtime girlfriend.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Apr. 2025
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News of the split came amid sightings of Post and new girlfriend Christy Lee, with whom he’s been spotted packing on PDA around the world.—
Jami Ganz,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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On his way to take the call, which was from his wife who was phoning after hearing from the babysitter, he was stopped by Zevi Kitay, the 19-year-old son of the babysitter, who had come looking for Moshe Ehrlich at the school.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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Leslie’s wife, also a witness, reported that one of the sailors’ arms came off in the process.—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 Apr. 2025
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The remains belong to a female between the ages of 40 and 60 and were left near the cemetery in mid-February, investigators said, per NBC Connecticut.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Its ratio of female to male digital nomads is on the upper end, at 20%.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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“Woman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/woman. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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