maternal
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Throughout “Growing Up” Baker notes with tenderness the poignant gaps between maternal expectation and reality—and between himself and the colorful members of his sprawling and opinionated family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
McCourt, a professor of maternal and child health at City St George's at the University of London, is chairing the review.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The results resemble a pattern already documented in maternal mortality research.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
My maternal grandmother, Marcela Miranda, was born in Arizona’s copper country in 1914 and lived in the United States until she was about 7.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Dimple hadn’t felt maternal toward anybody in her life, except maybe Papa.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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