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  • adjective Free of gender; not having or not attaching relevance to gender.

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  • Today, the most common type of marriage is the Companionate Marriage, in which husband and wife each have a career, and they co-parent and co-housekeep according to gender-free norms they negotiate.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • Today, the most common type of marriage is the Companionate Marriage, in which husband and wife each have a career, and they co-parent and co-housekeep according to gender-free norms they negotiate.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • Safire didn't see eye-to-eye with those of us who push for a gender-free lexical shift: those feminists who want to use "actor" to refer to an actress, he said, would never call Madonna a "sex god."

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • It sounds like one of those hip gender-free monikers for kids.

    Trenta? Starbucks, are you going through a midlife crisis? Alexandra Petri 2011

  • She and Stocker, who teaches at a small alternative school, say they have the support of the children's grandparents, though the grandparents were confused at first about the gender-free secret for chubby-cheeked, blond-haired Storm.

    Couple's gender secret for baby touches off debate 2011

  • Traister charts the attitudinal shifts in the campaign: how Hillary, arguably misguided by her campaign manager, Mark Penn, embraced a stiff-upper-lip, gender-free strategy early in her campaign which ironically ceded the more traditional womanly role of appealing to passions and ideals to Barack Obama, particularly after he was endorsed by the nations emoter in chief, Oprah Winfrey.

    'Girls Don't Cry': Beware 'Campaigning While Female' 2010

  • Traister charts the attitudinal shifts in the campaign: how Hillary, arguably misguided by her campaign manager, Mark Penn, embraced a stiff-upper-lip, gender-free strategy early in her campaign which ironically ceded the more traditional womanly role of appealing to passions and ideals to Barack Obama, particularly after he was endorsed by the nations emoter in chief, Oprah Winfrey.

    'Girls Don't Cry': Beware 'Campaigning While Female' 2010

  • Traister charts the attitudinal shifts in the campaign: how Hillary, arguably misguided by her campaign manager, Mark Penn, embraced a stiff-upper-lip, gender-free strategy early in her campaign which ironically ceded the more traditional womanly role of appealing to passions and ideals to Barack Obama, particularly after he was endorsed by the nations emoter in chief, Oprah Winfrey.

    'Girls Don't Cry': Beware 'Campaigning While Female' 2010

  • Traister charts the attitudinal shifts in the campaign: how Hillary, arguably misguided by her campaign manager, Mark Penn, embraced a stiff-upper-lip, gender-free strategy early in her campaign which ironically ceded the more traditional womanly role of appealing to passions and ideals to Barack Obama, particularly after he was endorsed by the nations emoter in chief, Oprah Winfrey.

    'Girls Don't Cry': Beware 'Campaigning While Female' 2010

  • I know the old gender-free terms of endearment though: it gets confusing telling long tales with no male pronouns after a while.

    …coming out again, and again, and again « Sven’s guide to… 2008

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