childbed

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Recent Examples of childbed After the violence of the childbed, women were then expected to perform domestic labor that was expressly gendered and acknowledged as backbreaking. Time, 20 Jan. 2023
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confinement
Noun
  • These conditions of confinement might mirror what we're used to in prisons and jails and can sometimes be worse.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Inaccurate data can lead to instability, allowing the plasma to escape its magnetic confinement and potentially cause damage to the machine.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Childbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childbed. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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