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Example sentences for: mates

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One is that potential mates can be sure you're a human and, hence, biologically worth mating with.
Scalia's "plain language" approach has certainly become more popular among his bench mates.
That's where it says that the federal investigator who gave Hoffa the green light fined him and several of his running mates in the last union election more than $40,000 for receiving improper campaign contributions, and held that Hoffa "did not testify accurately" about his personal involvement in the preparation of campaign finance reports.
Since individuals are freed from the need to police their organelles or keep out parasites, selection favors the widest assortment of possible mates, and thus the evolution of a large number of mating types so that one's own type—which one can't mate with—is a small subset of the population.
Second, a male's reproductive success depends on how many females he mates with, but not vice versa; for a female, one mating per pregnancy is enough.