to term

idiom

medical
: to the natural end of a pregnancy
She carried the baby to term.

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Meanwhile, the job of being a professor became more tenuous and provisional—some 75 percent of faculty are nontenured, many working term to term, with the fate of their employment determined, in part, by student course evaluations. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025 Children forced to carry their rapists’ offspring to term? John M. Crisp, Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2025 Guadalupe Lamas carried her first two children to term while picking produce in the fields. Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025 Ann, after prayer, medical advice, conversations with her husband, and guidance from her pastor, chooses to carry her pregnancy to term. Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for to term

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“To term.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20term. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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