quadruplets
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An Australian woman has given birth to rare, naturally-conceived identical quadruplets after a pregnancy described as "extremely high risk" by the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
“That would be so fun meeting chickens,” said 7-year-old Mason, who wore a matching yellow sweater with his fellow quadruplets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
They theorized that the atom is actually doing many things simultaneously: scattering not only single photons but also, through an entirely different process, photonic pairs, triplets and quadruplets.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023
Speaking by phone, he told me about the call he received from a colleague that led to the first selective reduction procedure: A woman in Western Michigan had become pregnant with quadruplets.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022
According to his deductions, twins occur once in 88 births; triplets, once in 7910; and quadruplets, once in 371,126.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle