as in produced
to bring forth from the womb
back in those days a woman her age would have birthed several children
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Recent Examples of birthed
Last year, the Steven Spielberg creature feature — which birthed the modern-day summer blockbuster upon its release June 20, 1975 — celebrated its 50th anniversary, complete with theatrical re-releases and an Academy Museum of Motion Pictures exhibition featuring archival material.
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Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 24 May 2026
Shooting in the real homes, clubs and neighborhoods that birthed these characters strips away distracting artifice, allowing the slowburn emotional stakes to take over.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
Has Season 50 birthed a new era?
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 19 May 2026
Just as the mammoth project birthed the quest for artificial wombs, the moa project spurred the development of artificial eggs, since no bird alive today is big enough to lay a moa.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
Hip-Hop was birthed from streets of New York, and found its voice throughout urban neighborhoods across the country.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 13 May 2026
Mbappé has sought to give back to the community that birthed a superstar, working through the years with a number of charities and launching a children’s foundation called Inspired By KM.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
Silvia and Guojun were now attempting to assert custody rights over the infant there, along with the newborns whom surrogates had recently birthed in Georgia and Virginia.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
Minnesota goes back even further, all the way to the original 1967 expansion that birthed the North Stars.
—Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 24 May 2026
Shooting in the real homes, clubs and neighborhoods that birthed these characters strips away distracting artifice, allowing the slowburn emotional stakes to take over.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 20 May 2026
Has Season 50 birthed a new era?
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 19 May 2026
Just as the mammoth project birthed the quest for artificial wombs, the moa project spurred the development of artificial eggs, since no bird alive today is big enough to lay a moa.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
Hip-Hop was birthed from streets of New York, and found its voice throughout urban neighborhoods across the country.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 13 May 2026
Mbappé has sought to give back to the community that birthed a superstar, working through the years with a number of charities and launching a children’s foundation called Inspired By KM.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026
Silvia and Guojun were now attempting to assert custody rights over the infant there, along with the newborns whom surrogates had recently birthed in Georgia and Virginia.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
Minnesota goes back even further, all the way to the original 1967 expansion that birthed the North Stars.
—Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for birthed
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This past awards season, the brand hosted a pre-Oscars dinner with nominee Stellan Skarsgård, who also starred in a short film produced by the brand, which was filmed at the storied (West) Hollywood haunt.—
Madeleine Schulz,
Vogue,
6 June 2026
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The quality adjustment problem does not reside in nominal GDP, which simply asks what was spent, earned, or produced in current dollars, but rather in the deflator applied to convert those nominal figures into real terms.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2026
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The water, too, was wild—the Allegheny and its tributaries had yet to be dammed, and Flag Swamp was noted as one of the last hideouts for beavers in the state.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Elections officials still had about 13,000 ballots left to count across all of Yolo County as of Tuesday afternoon.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
10 June 2026
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Before the Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte delivered the walk-off blow to the Dodgers — a towering home run off reliever Tanner Scott, punctuated by a bat flip — Roberts had to choose whether to send Shohei Ohtani to the plate as a pinch-hitter.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
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The 79th Cannes Film Festival has wrapped, amid familiar complaints about the lack of Hollywood blockbusters, fewer American stars and a competition lineup that delivered a string of beloved films but no immediate consensus masterpiece.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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