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The story of the dogs is that the host of the TV show was comparing women to dogs who would carry their pregnancy to term and then give their puppies up for adoption or kill them.
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
In such cloning, cells are collected and then developed into a living embryo that must be implanted into a surrogate to carry to term and then nurtured until the new puppy is old enough to be weaned.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 16 Nov. 2025
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
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Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
In such cloning, cells are collected and then developed into a living embryo that must be implanted into a surrogate to carry to term and then nurtured until the new puppy is old enough to be weaned.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 16 Nov. 2025
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
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“To term.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20term. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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