baby
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Rose does none of that — she just suddenly deeply wants a baby, and that desire is vivid in the text.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It’s a family. We all just love hanging out together, it’s just so funny and even after we go solo, we just have this baby together,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Tiphanie Frutuoso and her husband had their first baby this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Earlier this year, Temu was given a €200m fine for allowing the sale of illegal products such as dangerous baby toys.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
They must have come up with an explanation for why she couldn’t spin the straw into gold anymore, like expecting a baby takes away her magic powers.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Employees of all ages attended meetings remotely while holding crying babies or with pajama-wearing roommates in the frame.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Investigators say 20 babies were bound for Singapore - and at least 12 made it there.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Some of the babies passed after hours, some longer.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
According to Parenting Patch, only nine American babies were given that name in each of the last two years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
The babies were alike as two peas in a pod, and nestled against each other just as they had in the womb, snug in the blankets that had been knitted just for them.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
He acknowledged that he babied his surgically repaired knee for most of the first half, resulting in a swing that was more tentative and produced more soft contact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025
But perhaps most memorable, especially for anyone who has ever babied, basted and otherwise fussed over a 14-pound bird, is the season four episode “Turkey in a Can.”
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2023
It also doesn’t include fellow all-star Tony Gonsolin because the Los Angeles Dodgers have so babied his development that he doesn’t have a 20-start season yet.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
He’s done so, supposedly, to care for Ginny, 34, who has Down syndrome but doesn’t want to be babied.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Claudia also thought that he was terribly babied and impossibly spoiled.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
“Committing to throwing it, not really babying it. Not trying to shape it, just throwing it, and trusting how its going to come out.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
Choosing climate-adapted plants also means you’ll save on your water bill, as well as time spent babying or replacing plants.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
But breaking the habit of babying your puppy will prep it for being touched by other people in different situations.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022
We don’t need a lot of hand-holding and babying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
Mama held Akira as if he were an infant, his hands around her neck the way he liked to do when Mama felt like babying him.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
