bisexual
adjective
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Usage of Bisexual
While educational and advocacy groups tend to define bisexual broadly as applying to sexual or romantic attraction to members of one's own gender identity as well as to members of other gender identities, the older, narrower application describing attraction to male and female people persists among English speakers, aided, no doubt, by the word's morphology: the prefix bi- means "two." Note that while the broader meaning of bisexual can be understood as occupying the same semantic territory as pansexual, there are people who identify as one but not the other, as well as people who identify as both.
Examples of bisexual in a Sentence
Chadd Scott, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Some experts expressed hope that doxycycline use among gay and bisexual men would have a positive spillover effect in women of childbearing age.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Cook, who is bisexual, won reelection to her position as the Senator for District 15, near Houston.
—James Factora, Them, 6 Nov. 2024
Here’s Why This Grammy-winning rapper came out as bisexual in such an iconic way.
—Han Schneider, Them, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Bisexual.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bisexual. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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bisexual
1 of 2 adjective
bisexual
2 of 2 noun
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