Thesaurus results for BIRTH PANG

birth pang

noun

Definition of birth pang

as in contraction

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Recent Examples of birth pang Because the ending of what feels like the end of the world is actually just the birth pangs of a new creation. — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025 Such monstrosities, we were told, were merely the birth pangs of a new and mostly peaceful nation. — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024 The new Germany couldn’t tell its birth pangs from its death rattles. — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024 And the Affordable Care Act, for all of its birth pangs and flaws and the Republican efforts to repeal it, remains the law of the land. — Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 His knack for conveying compositional struggle ingeniously reflects his theme — a nation’s birth pangs. — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020

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Noun

Watermelon, bananas, avocados, sweet potatoes, dairy, leafy greens, and seafood provide nutrients that support healthy muscle contraction and relaxation.

— Oluseun Olufade, Verywell Health, 17 Sep. 2026
The goal is controlled contraction and complete relaxation, not maxing out reps.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of contraction

Noun

And anything that interrupts that delivery of truth from your profession to the American people, it should be opposed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Sep. 2026
Haat recently expanded into Tel Aviv, taking on Finland’s Wolt, the dominant player in Israel’s food delivery market.

— Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of delivery

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The human neurons suffered severe, selective damage, mimicking the cellular breakdown that causes cerebral palsy in human infants during difficult childbirths.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
Many women encounter discrimination during pregnancy and after childbirth, despite state and federal laws designed to protect them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of childbirth

Noun

Taylor Lautner and Taylor Lautner announced their pregnancy in March (which probably prevented the couple from attending another famous Taylor’s wedding in July).

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
After a 20-week scan revealed the fetus’ heart condition, the biological parents – Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar – wanted to terminate the pregnancy.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of pregnancy

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But Steinem lived to see the rise of a powerful backlash against her vision of feminism, with reproductive rights, motherhood, childbearing and gender roles once again at the center of the country's culture wars.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Not least because the hips—or rather, a wide pelvis—are considered a symbol of femininity, fertility, and childbearing capacity, both from a cultural-historical and an evolutionary-biology perspective.

— Kelly Niesen, Glamour, 24 July 2026

Definition of childbearing

Noun

This pattern spans over a decade, indicating a remarkable fidelity to the Ashburton River and its surrounding creeks as critical parturition sites.

— Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
His mother paced the spacious birthing stall, working off the pains of parturition, with half the placenta, neatly tied up by an attending stable hand, still hanging out of her.

— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021

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