How to Use to term in a Sentence
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Lopez carried the pregnancy to term and Gabriel lived for 10 days.
—CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2026
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Lopez carried the pregnancy to term and Gabriel lived for 10 days.
—ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
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Guadalupe Lamas carried her first two children to term while picking produce in the fields.
—Jessica Meszaros, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
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The decision of whether to bring the pregnancy to term is at her sole discretion.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 14 June 2024
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Black women are four times more likely to die carrying a child to term than their white counterpart.
—Katie Herchenroeder, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
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Bella chose to bring a pregnancy to term that killed her, so that’s kind of impossible to chart.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2024
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Hiring someone to carry your baby to term is a booming business.
—Emi Nietfeld, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
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Our modern culture is one that tells teens that bringing a child to term will wreck their family’s prospects, and mark them as freaks.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
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But also, starving whales are less likely to get pregnant, carry a pregnancy to term and be able to nurse and raise a calf.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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MaryAnn said she that girls or women should not be victimized twice, by being forced to carry a baby to term.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 June 2022
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Women’s lives are at stake, rape victims are forced to carry to term their assailant’s evidence, and children are forced to give birth.
—Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
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An immigrant with few resources, the woman carried the pregnancy to term.
—Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 7 July 2022
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They could be forced to carry a painful and potentially life-threatening pregnancy to term.
—Stephanie Atlan, ELLE, 19 Jan. 2023
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The standard could mean pregnant people would have to carry a pregnancy to term, even if the child could not survive after being born.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
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Government forcing women to carry their pregnancies to term because life starts at conception is a law in many red states.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
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Women with miscarriages have been forced to endure the trauma of carrying a stillborn pregnancy to term, putting their own lives at risk.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
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The thought of a rape victim carrying an attacker's baby to term breaks Madison Sanders' heart.
—Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
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Fischer, a Democrat, is serving his third term as mayor of Kentucky's largest city and cannot run again due to term limits.
—Andy Rose, CNN, 19 June 2022
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Stories of children forced to carry to term pregnancies due to rape and women facing death due to state laws have dominated headlines.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
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Her only options would be to carry the pregnancy to term, knowing that her baby would not survive, or travel to another state to get care.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
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Such a standard would force women to carry pregnancies to term even when doctors have determined there is no chance a baby will survive outside the womb.
—Time, 12 July 2023
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Unable to take off work to get the procedure out of state, Casiano was forced to carry the child to term and watch her struggle to breathe for four hours before passing away.
—Jourdain Searles, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024
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Consider that women are already being forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term in states around the country.
—Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
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If a pregnancy results and continues to term, the baby is delivered via a cesarean section.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2024
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For years, crisis pregnancy centers, which aim to persuade women to carry their pregnancies to term, have been the focus of legal battles in health care.
—Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
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Ricketts, who like Sasse is a Republican, would otherwise be out of a political job at the end of the year due to term limits.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
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Samantha Casiano Casiano said she was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term only to watch her baby die four hours after giving birth.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 19 July 2023
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Huizar left office in December 2020 due to term limits, after going nearly six months without his city salary.
—David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
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But Molla chose to bring her pregnancy to term, and, a week after delivering a healthy girl, died of sepsis, leaving her children motherless.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
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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.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
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