be born with
Example Sentences
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He has a rare genetic disorder called Townes-Brocks syndrome, which caused him to be born with severe hearing loss.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
In the meantime, thousands of children will be born with their citizenship at best in limbo, unable to obtain passports or Social Security numbers.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025
They learned well into Catherine’s 2008 pregnancy that they were both carriers for SMA, meaning there was a 25% chance their child would be born with the muscle-wasting disorder.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2025
But in pregnancies, it can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments and can also cause miscarriages and stillbirths.
From New York Times • May 21, 2024
A grandson could be born with his grandmother’s nose or her skin color, without that feature being visible in either parent—a phenomenon virtually impossible to explain in terms of Pythagoras’s scheme of purely patrilineal heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
