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birthplace

[burth-pleys] / ˈbɜrθˌpleɪs /


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Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison faces a pivotal decision: Should he uproot his Hollywood studio — the birthplace of such film classics as “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Godfather” and “Beverly Hills Cop”?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

At the other extreme, she becomes artist-in-residence of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, where she will serve as pianist, conductor and curator in Beethoven’s birthplace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

In 1986 Dolly Parton opened Dollywood, a theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, near her birthplace.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

In June, the company signed an agreement to explore a field in Lake Maracaibo, the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Yet as I looked at the photos of Mo helping out at the refugee camps, rebuilding bombed-out villages, and replanting farms, I couldn't help but think of how that birthplace had suffered over the centuries.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The answer lies in a process called "radial migration" -- stars gradually moving outward from their birthplaces by interacting with spiral waves in the Galaxy.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026

But Fifa said investigators obtained original birth certificates of the grandparents, which showed that they were born in countries like Argentina and Spain - all corresponding with the players' birthplaces.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

That pattern matches a practice ethnographers call patrilocality, in which men stay put while women leave their birthplaces to find mates, a pattern also seen in ancient European farmers, among others.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

Each year, hordes of them surge from the ocean into Canada’s rivers and streams, swimming back to their birthplaces to spawn.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2023

There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie




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