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  • I thought it was quite beautiful, except for the androgyn.

    An amazingly beautiful ad. Ann Althouse 2008

  • I thought it was levels of androgyn during development that determined sex, rather than any genetic inheritance per se?

    Americans Barely Pass Science Quiz - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • I thought it was levels of androgyn during development that determined sex, rather than any genetic inheritance per se?

    Americans Barely Pass Science Quiz - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • She'd probably say worse than that about me, but the only thing she can think of is that since I dress like a boy sometimes, I might be a poppet or an androgyn.

    The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

  • Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive.

    The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

  • Talking about Severus as both Dumbledore's apprentice and his mirror image as an alchemist, the Gryffindor / Slytherin androgyn that is "slytherin-side-out," is fascinating, even important (if true!), but it lacks the connect-the-dots transparency of Hermione as alchemical mercury or Sirius as the embodiment of the nigredo.

    HogwartsProfessor.com 2009

  • John, loving the idea of a Slytherin / Gryffindor androgyn being the "Green Lion"

    HogwartsProfessor.com 2009

  • a story androgyn or hermaphrodite embodying this resolution in some kind of apotheosis, and the revelation of everything hidden.

    Hogwarts Professor 2010

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  • US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906: Railroad telegraphers' notation meaning "You must alter".

    January 19, 2013