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Updated June 2026
to determine or assign sex again
“The biologist needed to resex the ambiguous specimens.”
"Resex" repeats a letter (4 unique of 5), so it rules out fewer options as an opening guess. Its 2 vowels balance the consonants. Watch the less-common letter X.
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