quadruplets
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Unfortunately, she says, she may be having quadruplets and she knows Che can’t afford to raise them: “You work one day a week,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 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
The population of Hengdaohezi Siberian Tiger Park in north east China has increased, as a tigress has given birth to quadruplets.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2022
He had been twice married; his first wife bore him 69 children in 27 accouchements, having twins sixteen times, triplets seven times, and quadruplets four times, but never a single birth.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)