Mx
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MXmissile experimental: a ten-warhead U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Mx.a title of respect prefixed to a person's surname: unlike Mr., Mrs., or Ms., it does not indicate gender and may be used by a person with any or no specific gender identity.
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[miks, muhks]
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Etymology
Origin of MX2
First recorded in 1970–75; by abbreviation
Origin of Mx.3
First recorded in 1975–80; M (as in Mr./Mrs./Ms. ) + x (symbol for an unknown quantity, person, or thing)
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At an earlier hearing, the court heard how Castellucci, a cyber security expert from California, uses the title "Mx" and refers to themselves using they/them pronouns.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025
"They both prefer offshore deeper waters, so it's quite unusual to spot them close to land," said Mx Cowen who uses "they" and "them" as personal pronouns.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
Now aged 26, Mx Sharman has donated three times and shares their egg donation journey on TikTok.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
So’s co-authors, Arjan Mann, and a few other paleontologists noticed it and recognized that it might be a new species, Mx.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
At, feeler; Mn, mandible; Mx, maxilla; Lm, labium, spinneret projecting beyond it.
From The Life-Story of Insects by Carpenter, George H. (George Herbert)
The phrase took hold before the World Cup during a news conference ahead of the Liga MX playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
In December, he moved to storied Liga MX club Chivas, his childhood team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Borod says that Polymarket won’t offer Liga MX markets that raise integrity concerns, and that access to official league data allows for real-time trading surveillance.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
“Liga MX was the most-watched soccer league on U.S. television in 2025,” according to a recent Nielsen report, ahead of American Major League Soccer and the European Premier League.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
MIRVs, which encompassed the land-based MX missile program, were the ultimate product of Livermore’s long quest for a high-yield, low-weight nuclear device.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Last month, she won an invitation-only competition at Queer/Bar, The Final Girls, and June 16 marked her first performance as a regular cast member of the bar’s Mx. show.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
“Anderson Aldrich is nonbinary. They use they/them pronouns, and for the purposes of all formal fillings, will be addressed as Mx. Aldrich,” the attorneys said in a footnote on the filing.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
"Anderson Aldrich is non-binary. They use they/them pronouns, and for the purposes of all formal filings, will be addressed as Mx. Aldrich," a footnote in a court filing reads by their defense team.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
They will also have the option of picking "Mx." as a title.
From Fox News ● Feb. 15, 2019
“Maybe we should let Mx. Desi know that there’s a flying fire type outside their door?”
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
The slope-intercept form of a linear equation is y = mx + b.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Please note that in previous courses you learned y = mx + b was the slope-intercept form of the equation, where m represented the slope and b represented the y-intercept.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
The equation for a straight line is y = mx + b .
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Algebraically, a linear equation typically takes the form y = mx + b, where m and b are constants, x is the independent variable, y is the dependent variable.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
The equation of the line may also be written y = mx + b, where m = tan α, and b = k − h tan α.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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