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childbearing

[chahyld-bair-ing] / ˈtʃaɪldˌbɛər ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
able to have children
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Subsidies designed to encourage childbearing, tried in places like Italy, have been ineffective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

By the late 1970s, one in two Greenlandic women of childbearing age -- at least 4,070 women -- had been fitted with an IUD, according to an investigation presented in September 2025.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Core to the new guidance is the idea that teenagers should start planning childbearing ASAP.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Subsidized egg-freezing for women who delay childbearing for career reasons could extend the window for family formation without forcing an impossible choice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with hiv.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston


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