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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.
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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.
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Peter Baker,
New York Times,
22 Mar. 2024
His knack for conveying compositional struggle ingeniously reflects his theme — a nation’s birth pangs.
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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.
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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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Director-level and above roles continued to show relative strength, growing faster than the broader market, while junior and mid-level hiring recovered only after prior contraction.
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The National Bureau of Economic Research dates the contraction that began in 1929 as ending in March 1933, though the broader Depression lasted for years and the economy suffered another severe recession in 1937-38 before World War II.
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Having witnessed centuries of religious warfare in Europe, when millions were killed for their beliefs, the framers took pains to make sure nothing like that would happen here.
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Perhaps second only to getting sunburned through your favorite white dress, the greatest casualty of summer fashion is the aches and pains brought on by your cutest but least supportive shoes.
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The robot staff behind the scenes Pudu's FlashBot will run an intelligent vending system, allowing guests to order drink deliveries by smartphone.
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Only when Freya Kemp joined her captain in an unbeaten stand of 80 off the last 55 balls, making 44 off 28 deliveries, did England look anything like pulling off an upset.
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This led to vast transformations in surgery, childbirth, handwashing, sterilization and infection control, per NIH and the Science History Institute.
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The jet-setting pair have two biological daughters, 4-year-old Bella (whose twin brother died at childbirth) and 8-year-old Alana.
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Their big family update came after a difficult year for the parents, who publicly shared that Natalie experienced three pregnancy losses in 2025.
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Common wisdom also held that birthmarks were caused by the mother’s experience during pregnancy.
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In fact, for millennia the role of mothers has included not only childbearing and education but also protection over the community as a whole, especially through advocacy for peace.
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Poor women’s childbearing, particularly among Black and immigrant populations, was increasingly portrayed as a driver of intergenerational poverty and social disorder.
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Danielle was expecting to give birth on July 22 via a cesarean section.
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Earlier that day, Parker — who had pretended to be pregnant for 10 months — stabbed her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock 15 times, then performed a crude cesarean section, cutting the fetus out of her body with a scalpel and removing it from her uterus.
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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.
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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.
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“Birth pang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birth%20pang. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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