quadruplets

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“These are my adopted grandkids,” Jablonsky said, pulling Jax up onto her lap while three of the four quadruplets piled around her feet.

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

And the risk of spontaneous loss for the entire pregnancy is 25% for quadruplets, 15% for triplets, and 8% for twins.

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

At the Hotel-Dieu, in Paris, in 108,000 births, covering a period of sixty years, mostly in the last century, there was only one case of quadruplets.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)