lying-in

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Noun
  • Leon’s bond conditions include home confinement and electronic monitoring.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These petitions challenge a detention by law enforcement, requiring the government to justify a person’s confinement.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • After the violence of the childbed, women were then expected to perform domestic labor that was expressly gendered and acknowledged as backbreaking.
    Time, Time, 20 Jan. 2023
Noun
  • The majority held that the right to end a pregnancy was found neither in the text of the Constitution nor in the nation's history, erasing a reproductive right the high court established nearly five decades ago.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Patients often wait until the doctor is standing up to leave before blurting out their real concern, which is typically a sensitive or time-consuming problem, such as wanting to start birth control, having painful periods, or worrying about pregnancy or STDs.
    Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Lying-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lying-in. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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