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The Mohler Report 9/18/2019

Listen to todays "Mohler Report." We have Merriam Webster adding a definition to the pronoun ,"they", Duke University refuses to charter Young Life as an official student organization and California is trying to provide free Abortion Pills on public university campuses, in an effort to destigmatize abortion. 

 

they

 pronoun
 ˈt͟hā 

Definition of they

 (Entry 1 of 2)

1those ones those people, animals, or things They dance well.What do they want to do?They aren't as popular as they once were.
2used to refer to people in a general way or to a group of people who are not specifiedYou know what they say.People can do what they want.They say the trial could go on for weeks.He's as lazy as they come.
3used with an indefinite third person singular antecedentNo one has to go if they don't want to.Everyone knew where they stood …— E. L. Doctorow
4used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary (see NONBINARY sense c)I knew certain things about … the person I was interviewing.… They had adopted their gender-neutral name a few years ago, when they began to consciously identify as nonbinary — that is, neither male nor female. They were in their late 20s, working as an event planner, applying to graduate school.— Amy Harmon

 

Copied and pasted from The Merriam Webster Online Dictionary.

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The Mohler Report 9/18/2019

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