birthed

past tense of birth, chiefly dialect

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Recent Examples of birthed The younger Munger, a Bay Area physicist, helped fund the successful ballot measures that birthed California’s citizen redistricting commission in 2008 and 2010. Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025 Much like country music’s ever-evolving dance with urban cultural influences, the very stage where Bill Monroe birthed bluegrass, Dolly Parton made her Grand Ole Opry debut, Johnny Cash kicked out the footlights and George Jones etched his legend has undergone a transformation of its own. Marcus K. Dowling, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025 One of the first major highlights showed the moment Mei Xiang birthed a squealing Xiao Qi Ji and cradled her newborn cub. Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025 Researchers at Google, whose revenue primarily comes from advertising, shepherded the breakthrough that birthed today’s AI industry. Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025 Irtizaali was one of the architects of the NBCUniversal partnership that has so far birthed The Traitors and Destination X. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025 It was birthed from the dynamic between him and his transgender child, Kai. Essence, 18 Sep. 2025 Shapiro said the next steps would be to attempt to use the cells to create live rock pigeons birthed by a surrogate chicken, as a proof of concept. Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025 Liquid water flowed across the surface of the asteroid that birthed the near-Earth object (NEO) Ryugu much later than scientists had thought possible, a new study finds. Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birthed
Verb
  • Seth MacFarlane produced the film while Akiva Schaffer of The Lonely Island directed.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Today’s edition of 5 Things PM was edited and produced by CNN’s Kimberly Richardson and Sarah Hutter.
    Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Between 2011 and 2022, roughly 380 Kansas drivers had the designation on the front of their license changed, according to Appeals Court Judge Karen Arnold-Burger, who authored the June ruling against Kobach.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The remaining 10,000 had no income cap.
    Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The next party leader could very well become the country’s next prime minister, but even that’s not guaranteed; voters delivered a clear rebuke in the past two parliamentary elections, delivering seats to opposition parties and stripping the LDP of its majority.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Austin Wells delivered the game-winning hit with a single, as Chisholm scored all the way from first after getting a head start on the 3-2 count.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Birthed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birthed. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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