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
The View producer Brian Teta got an eyeful — as did viewers at home — when three cohosts motioned toward their privates during a discussion about childbirth.
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
The amounts include pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care, assuming no complications.
—Angela Palermo
february 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Feb. 2026
These muscles are usually at their weakest during the first few weeks after childbirth.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
Screenings are scheduled at Lightbox Film Center of Kleckner’s landmark feminist films, including Three Lives (1971)—the first feature-length documentary produced by an all-women crew—and Birth Film (1973), one of the earliest feminist films to document childbirth.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Feb. 2026
The amounts include pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care, assuming no complications.
—Angela Palermo
february 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 Feb. 2026
These muscles are usually at their weakest during the first few weeks after childbirth.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
Screenings are scheduled at Lightbox Film Center of Kleckner’s landmark feminist films, including Three Lives (1971)—the first feature-length documentary produced by an all-women crew—and Birth Film (1973), one of the earliest feminist films to document childbirth.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for childbirth
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Under Republican leadership, women who have pregnancy complications are dying.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Hendricks had developed preeclampsia, a potentially fatal complication of pregnancy involving damage to the blood vessels and high amounts of fluid loss.—
Ari Daniel,
NPR,
14 Feb. 2026
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Cleghorn notes that many Minoan women died between the ages of twenty and twenty-five, indicating that childbearing was most likely the cause of death.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Women past childbearing years often see OB-GYNs less frequently.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
13 Jan. 2026
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There is rightly a lot of focus on delivery apps, but roughly 30% of delivery workers operate independently of the apps, and thousands of New Yorkers rely on e-bikes to commute.—
Laura Kavanagh,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Lake County Council passed a resolution Tuesday to urge the state legislature to pass a bill to disclose the specific fees hidden in utility bill delivery charges.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Some of the most productive conversations happen when labor, business, community advocates, and government officials engage together, not sequentially.—
Garrett Lucien,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Argentina approves President Milei’s labor law overhaul Lawmakers approved Argentinian President Javier Milei’s labor overhaul, a major victory for the libertarian leader’s economic agenda.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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And not only through month-long vacations and pains au chocolat.—
Hannah Seligson,
Vanity Fair,
12 Feb. 2026
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The Guy, as Sinclair is known on the show, sells to everyone, stressed-out 20-something assistant and cross-dressing stay-at-home dad alike, witnessing their private joys and pains and shortcomings and judging no one.—
Ezra Marcus,
Vulture,
11 Feb. 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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That gravitational pull extended through much of Xi Jinping's first five-year term, when China still projected the promise of profits and opportunity more than political constraint and economic contraction.—
Dewardric L. McNeal,
CNBC,
13 Feb. 2026
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Thanks to housing crises in big cities, many aspiring writers can’t afford rooms of their own, and contractions in the media industry have made writing as a profession less tractable.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Childbirth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childbirth. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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