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Non-Inclusive Terms and Their Replacements

Non-inclusive Inclusive
he, him, his, she, her, hers they, them, theirs
guys folks, people, you all, y’all
enabled active, on
disabled inactive, off
master main, primary, leader
slave follower, replica, standby
blacklist blocklist
whitelist allowlist
blackbox testing behavioral testing, closed testing, opaque testing
whitebox testing structural testing, open testing, transparent testing
grandfathered legacy status
man hours person hours, engineer hours
sanity check quick check, confidence check, coherence check
dummy value placeholder value, sample value
foo bar example, test, sample
white paper position paper

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