as in confinement
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Noun
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Anderson was sentenced to three months in prison and three months of home confinement.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025 -
As the two keepers' accelerating madness batters their already uneasy relationship, the film becomes a phantasmagorical endurance test, with the two antagonistic leads hurling themselves against their tight confinement.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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
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Pregnant moms and those with newborn babies in River Rouge, Inkster, Highland Park, Hamtramck, Melvindale and Dearborn can now apply to the program Rx Kids to receive cash payments during pregnancy and for the first six months of the child’s life.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Scientists estimate that hydranencephaly occurs in one in 5,000 to one in 10,000 pregnancies, and the condition is usually fatal within the first year of life, per the Cleveland Clinic.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Lying-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lying-in. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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