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gender-neutralize

verb

Etymology

From gender-neutral + -ize.

Definitions

  1. To render (something) gender-neutral.

    • J.K. Rowling, among the most notable women to have gender-neutralized their names, is part of a very long tradition that includes the Bronte sisters (aka, the Bell Brothers), Louisa May Alcott (B.A. Evans),[…].
    • If we're going to gender-neutralize some parts of English, why don't we just gender-neutralize everything?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gender-neutralize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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