premature
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In an interview with Belly of the Beast, a Cuba-focused website, Jayapal described visiting a maternity hospital where they saw premature babies in incubators.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
She then gave birth to a severely premature child who died about two hours later.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026
An October 2024 launch party with Will Smith and Alicia Keys proved premature, as rushed work left hotels riddled with construction problems and unable to open without hundreds of millions of dollars of fixes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Last June, the South Coast Air Quality Management District received more than 20,000 comments opposing a pair of clean air rules that would have prevented 2,500 premature deaths and 10,000 new cases of asthma.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.'
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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