stillborn

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Recent Examples of stillborn The Sleepover actress and the Big Time Rush star, 35, who are also parents to Rio, 3, Kingston, 5, and Ocean, 8, announced that their daughter was stillborn, sharing a joint statement on their Instagrams on April 15, 2024. Kayla Grant, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 21,000 babies are stillborn every year in the United States — affecting roughly 1 in 175 births. Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2025 Some cause lifelong disability and some are fatal, resulting in babies who are stillborn or die shortly after birth. Almut Winterstein, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025 At the time, Colorado had recorded 25 cases, including seven infants who were stillborn or died within months of birth from complications of the infection, and Herlihy said that the state could have more than 100 cases if nothing changed. Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stillborn
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Adjective
  • The now deceased suspect is believed to have started the fire intentionally to draw-in and target responding firefighters, officials have said.
    Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
  • Authorities later located the body of a deceased man with a firearm nearby and lifted the shelter-in-place order that had been in place.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2025
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  • Their bodies were found lifeless June 2 with plastic bags over their heads and evidence that their hands had been zip-tied near their father's truck in a campground.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • The following morning, the family discovered the lifeless body of the fourth kitten.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Topline Authorities reportedly identified the man suspected of killing two firefighters and injuring another in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho—after he was found dead next to the sniper rifle believed to be used to ambush firefighters responding to a wildfire.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Last year, a 19-year-old female employee at a Walmart in Canada was found dead inside a walk-in oven at the store's bakery department.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 30 June 2025
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  • And as if trying to recreate a defunct style of filmmaking wasn’t hard enough, Soderbergh also decided to be his own cinematographer and editor, going under the pseudonyms of Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • Authorities have attributed the attacks to dissident factions of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), led by Iván Mordisco.
    Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 30 June 2025
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  • An attendee holds a portrait of late football player Andre Silva during the funeral ceremony of Liverpool's Portuguese forward Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva at the Mother Church of Gondomar, on the outskirts...
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
  • From mid-June to late September, Gulf waters teem with bay scallops, and Steinhatchee is one of Florida’s top spots to harvest them.
    Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
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  • The area, which also includes the Mann Chinese Theater with its famous footprints of departed stars, also has the classic El Capitan theater, owned by Disney.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But with Harden, Norman Powell and Ivica Zubac taking the majority of the shots instead of the departed Paul George and a rehabilitating Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers score 45.9 percent of their points in the paint (fifth in NBA).
    Law Murray, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
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  • But the genre had been moribund for some time before 2002, when Boyle’s picture and Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil brought it back from the dead.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 June 2025
  • The Disney/Marvel release has earned $372 million worldwide and credit for spicing up the moribund superhero genre.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 6 June 2025

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