midwife
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To better understand why some populations recover while others continue to collapse, researchers studied common midwife toads living around four lakes in the Pyrenees of France and Spain that had all experienced severe Bd outbreaks.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
The midwife “must have seen hundreds of babies,” Gino observes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The review - led by senior midwife Donna Ockenden - is due to be published on Wednesday, while a police investigation continues.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Burrows’ talent was to midwife a real relationship between the viewer and the viewed, “You want to go where everybody knows your name,” runs the “Cheers” theme, and where you know everyone’s name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2026
Alyce thought the midwife had more skills with herbs and syrups and spells than Will Russet, but Will delivered babies just as well and was much kinder to the mother.
From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman
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Edward Errington-Rozkalns, known as Teddy, died in November 2020 after "undoubted failings" led to midwives failing to monitor his blood sugar levels before sending him home.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The report also raised concerns about how patients were allocated to midwives.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
Many of the delegates are set to march on Saturday in Lisbon for the "One Million More" campaign, drawing attention to a global shortage of midwives.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Two delegates from the Bangladesh Midwifery Society, who convinced their government to hire 5,000 extra midwives, were also rejected.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
This included the esteem accorded to women who held life-giving roles as healers and midwives.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The actually existing Mets were also midwifed by Gotham honchos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
"It's not going to stop with Black studies, it will continue to all the other subjects and knowledges that are midwifed and have been midwifed by Black studies."
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023
The sense of shared national endeavor that midwifed the Writers Project feels like a relic from another millennium.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2020
And he midwifed the most important alliance in American history.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2017
Unable to reach his sons, Dad called Rob and Diane Hardy, because Mother had midwifed five of their eight children.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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“There is lots to be proud of, including midwifing ten new plays by women playwrights from Los Angeles, into the American theatre through our Writers Workshop,” he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
And James will ironically be in the position of midwifing the next phase of America’s gun movement.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2020
However, Campbell is also sharply scrutinized for his role in midwifing and unleashing Dianetics.
From Nature ● Oct. 9, 2018
Along with the classic documentary “Style Wars,” which Chalfant co-produced, “Subway Art” helped disseminate graffiti culture worldwide, midwifing local communities and cementing the style, slang, technique and mores of the New York scene.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
Bateson knew that he was witnessing, or, rather, midwifing, the birth of a profound revolution in biology.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Langhorne was midwived in a Bethesda hospital, the middle of three sons to a father who ran a concrete company.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2015
I pretend neither to the spirit of prophecy, nor to any uncommon skill in predicting a crisis; much less to tell when it begins to be nascent, or is fairly midwived into the world.
From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by Ridpath, John Clark
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