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
Han Schneider, Them, 18 Sep. 2024
The app, with a user base of mostly gay and bisexual men, is testing an AI chatbot that will screen prospects to recommend dating partners, set up dates and keep a track of your conversations, the Wall Street Journal reported.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
Between 2018 and 2022, estimated HIV infections among gay and bisexual men fell 16% for Black Americans and 20% for white Americans, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2024
Globally, gay and bisexual men made up the vast majority of cases in that outbreak.
—Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Bisexual.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bisexual. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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