she
pronoun
the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.
she
1 American
[shee]
/ ʃi /
pronoun
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they,
plural nominative
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her,
possessive, objective
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them,
objective
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hers,
possessive
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their,
possessive
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theirs
possessive
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the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.
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the woman.
She who listens learns.
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anything considered, as by personification, to be feminine.
spring, with all the memories she conjures up.
noun
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shes
plural
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a female person or animal.
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an object or device considered as female or feminine.
s/he
2
American
[shee-er-hee, shee-hee]
/ ˈʃi ərˈhi, ˈʃiˈhi /
pronoun
she
British
/ ʃiː /
pronoun
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refers to a female person or animal
she is a doctor
she's a fine mare
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refers to things personified as feminine, such as cars, ships, and nations
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an informal word for it 1
she's apples
she'll be right
noun
Gender
See he 1.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of she
1125–75; Middle English, alteration of Old English sēo, sīo, sīe, feminine of se the 1; replacing Old English hēo, hīo, feminine personal pronoun; see he 1, her
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Garcia will step into the role effective Jan. 5, succeeding Linda Rendle who announced in May that she was stepping down for health reasons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
In her first statement, Stewart told Page Six that she has been committed to combating homelessness via charity and will continue to work toward making a difference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
She told Anchorage’s KTUU-TV that she had “no idea.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
You see everybody on camera all the time, and so it liberated every woman in the room to “OK, good, she knows her hair is going crazy right now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Life for Joey is on an upswing, and she wants to keep it that way.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“No one who knows that the result of honesty is always positive would choose wickedness when s/he is aware that it has a negative reward.”
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
If that person breaks the office, s/he is like the director of an art museum destroying the artwork within.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2022
"A good-faith debate requires enough humility to acknowledge that we may not know everything and we could be wrong — a no-no for a narcissist who is convinced s/he is always right."
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2022
Genesis’ daughters, Genesse and Caresse, stated their parent, who used s/he as a pronoun, died on 14 March, issuing the following statement via social media:
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2020
And this commitment to charity reminds the cancer person of the essential goodness of humanity and makes him/her feel loved and encouraged because s/he will leave a cancer-curing legacy.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
When shes walks up to our table at a cafe in Calabasas, there are no cameras and no filters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Another student wrote: “Mrs. Solomon is special … very organizd and shes fun. … She does not emberes me like other teachers.”
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
"She's missed important doctors appointments shes had since a baby due to her disability in her eye."
From Fox News ● Jan. 13, 2022
Many females can relate to Ruby #EastEnders & how shes feeling about whats happened & how she feels about herself after.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2018
Old Frau Stresemann, shes one of our neighbors, she says she can hear Deutschlandsender broadcasts in her tooth fillings.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
But they cautioned that analysts estimate year-over-year growth in hyperscalers’ capex growth may slow next year to 44%.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Some investors say they trust Anthropic’s chief financial officer Krishna Rao to set a conservative valuation and give priority to delivering IPO investors a first-day “pop” in the stock price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Congressional investigations can't bring criminal charges, but they can force the subjects to testify and turn over evidence -- which can be referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
It’s not difficult because it’s kind of what they want.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Cynthia was able to visit her mother before she died, but they never truly reconnected.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Certainly no one can accuse her of doing it for political advantage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Other users continued to criticize Stewart, mainly over how she and her team handled the controversy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Rosy and Doryan’s first meeting, with her comforting him as he is in the throes of a war flashback, has a desperate intensity; later, their forest love scene has a peaceable beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
You see everybody on camera all the time, and so it liberated every woman in the room to “OK, good, she knows her hair is going crazy right now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
In late 1967, the US government, taking into consideration all her services during the war, finally grants her something much more permanent than residency: citizenship.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
“Not all of those survived and a lot of them got gobbled up and turned into different entities but the PC business is alive and well,” said Joyce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
While these systems "are normally on a closed network" and "are not supposed to be accessible from the Internet", a number of them ended up being exposed "to anyone with some basic knowledge", he added.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Companies also have to deal with the challenges of integration, spending money to fuse the businesses in ways that will allow them to achieve the stated benefits of the merger.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
I don’t want them to be less silly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The crack between them is called the "interhemispheric fissure."
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
She thinks its the place of independent bookshops, like hers, to foster the excitement amongst young people for reading.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
Asked about the violence, Sabrina Brizzola, 24, coordinator of the Italian University Students' Union, said organisations like hers should "organise and channel this generational rage".
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Now, the pride moves in both directions — with Sofia as reverent of her mother’s work as Eleanor was of hers — meeting in the middle to stretch into the future.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Puerto’s essay also reflects the complexity of an experience like hers.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
The others lay quiet, Jonn and Allun rolled up like caterpillars in their blankets, Marlie lying flat with hers flung over her.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
Cash flows are being questioned over concerns that they’ve in some cases already turned negative, he said, noting that “investors are being more demanding on their expectations.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
“To someone in the grip of psychosis,” Mr. deBoer explains, “a delusion is not a hypothesis to be weighed, it’s a fact, every bit as real as the ground under their feet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
It’s not that share prices have fallen — the index is still up by double digits in 2026 — but their performance hasn’t kept pace with the increase in expected profits.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
He casts his critics as gambling companies seeking to protect their monopoly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Hundreds of Filipino men have escaped into the mountains to organize their own militias.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Our next-door neighbors have been in theirs for 19 years, and for most of that time we thought of ourselves as friends rather than just neighbors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
So it was about honoring theirs while making it my own as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
“No mayor has retained the same police commissioner from the administration prior to theirs since 1964,” she said, referring to Tisch, who was elevated under the previous mayor, Eric Adams.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Both defences are elite and forced a season-high seven turnovers in the game, with the 49ers in particular taking advantage by scoring three touchdowns from theirs.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
But Perseus spoke out and told them he had taken it and that it would be theirs again only when they showed him how to find the nymphs of the North.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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