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It's called "singular they". It's used like: "We have a new joiner in our team! They became the talk of the town very fast". I love this feature of the English language, while a bit confusing at first, I think it works much better than "he/she" or "s/he" when talking about someone with an unspecified, unknown or unrelated gender.


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