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gender-specific

American  
[jen-der-spi-sif-ik] / ˈdʒɛn dər spɪˈsɪf ɪk /

adjective

  1. for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females.

    Left-handedness is not gender-specific.


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MacLaine reveled in her character’s weirdly specific behaviors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023

As for your Fourth Amendment protections, sharing your information with a third party sometimes compromises them and sometimes doesn’t, in ways that can be weirdly specific and unintuitive.

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2021

Flanagan and Howard pull off something simple but brilliant: King has Jessie barraged by weirdly specific colorful internal characters, like her college friend Ruth and “Goody Burlingame,” a fairly literal representation of Jessie’s puritanical side.

From The Verge • Sep. 26, 2017

The language of the amendment is both weirdly specific and vague enough to create a lot of confusion in its implementation.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2015

People have definitely gotten weirdly specific with Slender Man.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2014

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