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Recent Examples of birth pang
Such monstrosities, we were told, were merely the birth pangs of a new and mostly peaceful nation.
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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
But for Chollet, as for Obama, this apparent defect is actually a strength, and the current world disorder is less the result of flawed U.S. strategies than the birth pangs of a new and better order.
—Derek Chollet, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2016
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
But for Chollet, as for Obama, this apparent defect is actually a strength, and the current world disorder is less the result of flawed U.S. strategies than the birth pangs of a new and better order.
—Derek Chollet, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birth pang
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Kahalzadeh calculated if only 30% of the 10 million to 12 million jobs at risk are actually lost, that still translates to approximately 3 million to 4 million jobs—representing a 15% labor market contraction and the largest decline in Iran’s modern history.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
17 Apr. 2026
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The business model underpinning kids and family animation is under growing strain, as a post-streaming contraction collides with declining linear viewership and tighter commissioning, a panel at Spain’s Quirino Future Lab session underscored on Wednesday.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Gibson cited increasingly severe stomach pains and diarrhea across several days as her family's symptoms.—
Chiara Kim,
PEOPLE,
15 Apr. 2026
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Branch Rickey and Leo Durocher, the Dodgers’ general manager and manager, took great pains to protect Robinson, but protecting him from all of the vitriol was an impossibility.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Keep your delivery calm, but don’t dilute the message.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2026
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This development follows the delivery of the lead handling system’s primary components and the establishment of the plant’s structural foundation.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Apr. 2026
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The series is true to its body-horror ambitions, including plenty of unfiltered childbirth scenes that could have the faint of heart hitting the fast-forward button.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
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The unusual childbirth comes at a time of heated discussion about citizenship laws in the United States.—
Jessica Mekles,
FOXNews.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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The Chronicle’s reporters also reviewed medical records about a pregnancy and STD texts a week after the alleged assault.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Plaza's pregnancy and relationship with Abbott comes more than a year after the death of her filmmaker husband Jeff Baena, who died by suicide in January 2025.—
Derek Lawrence,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
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Though some countries have tried to slow or reverse the trend through pro-natal policies—including cash incentives and tax breaks for childbearing, affordable childcare, and longer parental leaves—their long-term success has not been definitively proved so far.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
6 Apr. 2026
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Around the eleventh century, in Anglo‑Saxon England, instructions for an elaborate childbearing and mothering ritual were recorded by monks in the Lacnunga, a collection of medical texts and curative prayers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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The hospital and state attorney’s office wanted to force Doyley to undergo a cesarean section.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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The hospital and state attorney’s office wanted to force Doyley to undergo a cesarean section.—
Amy Yurkanin,
ProPublica,
14 Mar. 2026
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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
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The Babylonian epic the Enuma Elish begins with an account of the gods in their generations not creating but emerging, through a kind of parturition, into a preexisting state of unbeing.… Subscribe or log in to continue reading.—
Jordan Castro,
Harper's Magazine,
9 Jan. 2024
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