as in pregnancy
the act or process of giving birth to children
women who choose to undergo childbirth without the use of anesthetics and other drugs
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Recent Examples of childbirth
Her book begins with a consideration of birth practices among women from the Minoan civilization—Bronze Age inhabitants of the island of Crete, whose deities included a goddess of childbirth.
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Scientists also now suspect that the hormone highs and lows of pregnancy and postpartum can carve out changes in the brain that persist for two years, or even longer, post-childbirth.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Jan. 2026
But regional health authorities said the babies were all suffering from a range of diseases and died during childbirth or pregnancy.
—CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
There’s no biohacking out of childbirth.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 14 Jan. 2026
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Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Scientists also now suspect that the hormone highs and lows of pregnancy and postpartum can carve out changes in the brain that persist for two years, or even longer, post-childbirth.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 15 Jan. 2026
But regional health authorities said the babies were all suffering from a range of diseases and died during childbirth or pregnancy.
—CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
There’s no biohacking out of childbirth.
—Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 14 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for childbirth
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Burden wrote that James was excited about each and involved with her pregnancies, but after their second child was born, he was promoted to president at his investment firm and began pulling away from daily parenting duties.—
Emily Trainham,
FOXNews.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Sean Wallace and Jordan Mark Windsor) is part of a tradition of horror films fixated on the grotesque transformative aspects of pregnancy.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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That's because their children, who largely fall within the millennial generation, might be in the midst of their childbearing years.—
Holly Garcia,
Parents,
11 Jan. 2026
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As many as 1 in 5 women may have uterine fibroids during their childbearing years — and those abnormal growths may have a connection not just to reproductive health but also to heart health.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
10 Dec. 2025
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Overall, there are myriad potential points of failure that can interrupt power delivery to large regions.—
Matt Randolph,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Hunger Busters' social media posts appear to show at least some deliveries resumed after the pandemic, with sandwiches being made until April 2024.—
Andrea Lucia,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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That judicial warrant is a court order, said Ian Macdonald, an attorney and partner in the labor and employment practice of Greenberg Traurig LLP.—
Jeanne Sahadi,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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That advantage is likely to stay with the Dodgers, even if somehow the owners were able to strongarm the players into a cap system when the latest labor deal expires on December 1st of this year.—
Maury Brown,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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In fact, Williams took great pains to establish that his primary objective is building the Terps (7-7, 0-3 Big Ten), not tearing down a 21-year-old prospect, the Bears or the sport’s governing body.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Jan. 2026
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Those in their fifties and beyond require the same amount of sleep as younger adults—and may actually benefit from sleeping more to offset nightly wake-ups from aches and pains, medication side effects, or dealing with the need to urinate more frequently in the middle of the night.—
Emma Loewe,
Outside,
1 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
1 Oct. 2024
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The Babylonian epic the Enuma Elish begins with an account of the gods in their generations not creating but emerging, through a kind of parturition, into a preexisting state of unbeing.… Subscribe or log in to continue reading.—
Jordan Castro,
Harper's Magazine,
9 Jan. 2024
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The result is not a neat redistribution of responsibility, but a net contraction of the system.—
Sylvana Quader Sinha,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Unsigned elisions, contractions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Childbirth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childbirth. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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