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as in nativities
the act or instance of being born
almost from birth, he showed all the marks of future greatness
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as in ancestries
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a man of noble birth
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as in beginnings
the point at which something begins
that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation
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as in produces
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 births
Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026
And so Hijra women are called to bless at births and weddings, because their presence is considered auspicious, carrying something the occasion needs.
—Vogue, 1 June 2026
Halverson, Zerwas and the rest of their friend group stayed tightly knit throughout college, weddings, the births of children and beyond.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 28 May 2026
The work was so deadly that deaths surpassed births.
—ABC News, 28 May 2026
While there are no available statistics on how many women are choosing freebirth, research shows that home births have tripled between 2004 and 2024.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
As John Burn-Murdoch recently observed in the Financial Times, United Nations demographers predicted that there would be 350,000 births in South Korea in 2023; the real figure came in at 230,000.
—Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
The significance of Ashura in Sunni tradition was supported by hadiths that established the date as corresponding to numerous notable events and births in the Hebrew Bible and Islamic history.
—Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026
The practical effect was that more women who had uncomplicated births were sent home after just one night in the hospital.
—Kimberly Turner, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
With the resources available to urban coyotes, the average coyote births six new pups.
—Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 9 Apr. 2026
The film charts his romances and business endeavors, including a nightclub that seemingly births the jazz movement.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
Taylor is a supporter of the Center for Whale Research, where scientists were responsible for the first counting of the Southern Resident orcas, monitoring their births, deaths and general health.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026
And so Hijra women are called to bless at births and weddings, because their presence is considered auspicious, carrying something the occasion needs.
—Vogue, 1 June 2026
Halverson, Zerwas and the rest of their friend group stayed tightly knit throughout college, weddings, the births of children and beyond.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 28 May 2026
The work was so deadly that deaths surpassed births.
—ABC News, 28 May 2026
While there are no available statistics on how many women are choosing freebirth, research shows that home births have tripled between 2004 and 2024.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
As John Burn-Murdoch recently observed in the Financial Times, United Nations demographers predicted that there would be 350,000 births in South Korea in 2023; the real figure came in at 230,000.
—Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
The significance of Ashura in Sunni tradition was supported by hadiths that established the date as corresponding to numerous notable events and births in the Hebrew Bible and Islamic history.
—Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 May 2026
The practical effect was that more women who had uncomplicated births were sent home after just one night in the hospital.
—Kimberly Turner, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
Verb
This births a star that continually accretes more gas and becomes more massive.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
With the resources available to urban coyotes, the average coyote births six new pups.
—Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 9 Apr. 2026
The film charts his romances and business endeavors, including a nightclub that seemingly births the jazz movement.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for births
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Eastern and western ancestries in Karelian Mesolithic dogs suggest that two lineages diverged during the Paleolithic.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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That drops to 49% for Hispanic/Latino patients, 29% for Black patients and even lower for mixed ancestries, the NMDP reports.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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But its prediction-market bet shows how these platforms are beginning to outgrow their YOLO beginnings and could one day underpin big parts of traditional finance.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
4 June 2026
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Even the set for Simon’s modest apartment on Lexington Avenue evoked Cretton’s humble beginnings.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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The company also produces compact robots such as the MiniCobo and Mini 2, aimed at education, research, hospitality, and small-scale automation.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
3 June 2026
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Lisa Mierke also executive produces along with Alex Plapinger and James Merrill, Sean Buckelew and Benjy Brooke for Green Street Pictures, which also serves as the studio.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
3 June 2026
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Her fiction concentrates thematically upon the emotional and psychological currents traversing the bonds across lineages — whether those connections are well-wrought, addled, severed, or unknown — and the fraught business of familial inheritance.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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Crocodilian ancestors have persisted through mass extinctions, dramatic climate shifts and ecological upheavals that have eradicated countless other lineages.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Recent Harvard commencements have grown much more political.—
Michael Casey,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
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Originally called MarchingOrder, Tassel had provided services for commencements for around 20 years before adding the AI name offering.—
Kendall Staton The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
25 May 2026
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Photos from the local information office in General Santos City, which has about 720,000 people, showed convenience stores and buildings crumbling in the aftermath of the quake.—
Kathleen Magramo,
CNN Money,
8 June 2026
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Each puzzle has exactly one solution, so watch out for words or items that seem to belong to multiple categories!—
Mark Cooper,
New York Times,
8 June 2026
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The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.—
Serdar Yalçin,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
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Saturday Night Live host Matt Damon was cast as the adoring husband in Mom, an entirely inoffensive movie where nothing bad happens—something that mothers everywhere will enjoy.—
William Vaillancourt,
Rolling Stone,
10 May 2026
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Some parents − overwhelmingly mothers − are stepping back from full-time work or leaving the workforce altogether to accommodate the needs of their family.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Births.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/births. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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