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Mainstream medical, advocacy and major lexical sources define a transgender woman as a person who was assigned male at birth but lives and identifies as a woman, and they treat that identity as womanh...
The word "nigger" is defined across standard dictionaries as an extremely offensive racial slur directed at Black people; major lexicons call it "probably the most offensive word in English" and note ...
Definitions of “woman” vary across legal, scientific and everyday usage: dictionaries and encyclopedias commonly define “woman” as an adult female human , while recent legal and political actions in 2...
The word "nigger" is a historically rooted English racial slur that dictionaries and scholarship mark as highly offensive; major reference works now treat it as derogatory and often replace it with "t...
"Sim farms" can refer to at least three distinct things in current reporting: the 1993 Maxis video game SimFarm and strategy/walkthrough resources for it (historic gaming), modern commercial farming s...
The compound kurzgesagt most directly means "in brief" or "briefly stated," and in everyday English it is commonly rendered as "in short" or "in a nutshell" depending on tone and context . The term al...
A teenager saying "?" can mean one of several things: literally leave and return to their residence (the standard dictionary sense), a request to be excused or dismissed that can be granted or denied ...
“Skibidi” is a purposively nonsensical slang word popularized by internet meme culture and a surreal YouTube series; major dictionaries now record it as flexible slang meaning roughly “cool,” “bad,” o...
You asked: “Translate pp to French.” In print or citations, the English abbreviation “pp.” (meaning “pages” or the plural of “p.”) is routinely rendered in French the same way — “pp.” — when referring...
Truth is commonly defined in dictionaries as the real facts, the body of real things or the quality of being true — essentially “what is the case,” according to leading lexica . Different public uses ...