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birth

[burth] / bɜrθ /




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Sulloway’s research on birth order and risk-taking reveals that later-borns are more psychologically wired to take strategic risks to carve out their own niche and stand out in the family.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Most are modeled after Britain’s Infanticide Act, which operates on the assumption that a woman who harms her child within a year of giving birth is suffering from a postpartum mental illness.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

But, strangely enough, the missing piece in what was already a sprawling portfolio was baseball, the sport linked to him since birth.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Imam's explanation centers on the way different brain systems are wired before birth.

From Science Daily Aug. 31, 2026

Each man a hero of America’s birth and early years.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The number of births in that ward is down 29% in the decade ending in 2024.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Postpartum psychosis is a medical emergency that affects about one to two women in every 1,000 births, said Sally Wilson, national training coordinator at the UK-based charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

The fact that it’s an incredibly rare condition that occurs in around one in 1,000 births would have made it easy to shrug it off as an anomaly.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Medical Women’s Assn., at least one in eight women who experience live births report symptoms of postpartum depression.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Given the lack of previous investigation, it may have been inevitable that when Dobyns traced births and deaths in Lima he would be staking out new ground.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Double Eagle contributed a sprawling water system and associated royalties to the venture that birthed EagleRock and is involved in its growth plans.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

But as Caulfield noted, the wellness movement has undergone a major cultural change in the past half-decade that has made it almost unrecognizable from the movement that birthed MAHA.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

In the wake of the Manhattan Project that birthed the atomic era — and with it, the ever-present threat of nuclear war — people acted immediately to bring attention to this new threat.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

“HungryGhost is birthed from Margo’s experience of feeling like an alien,” Fanning says.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

I wait for him to absolve me of not remembering a mother who birthed me, a grandmother who saved me, friends who rebelled with me, and a suffocating fear I can’t name.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

Zika can spread from a birthing parent to their child in the womb and cause congenital disabilities, which notoriously led to panic after an outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Like the spine, the human pelvis must balance two competing demands: efficient bipedal walking and birthing large-brained infants.

From Science Daily Jul. 11, 2026

The state plans to later expand to additional hospitals and birthing centers.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

He said there were seasonal restrictions on areas with birthing seals and wintering birds.

From BBC Apr. 20, 2026

The reds and yellows of common flame warred against the emeralds and jades of wildfire, each color flaring and then fading, birthing armies of short-lived shadows to die again an instant later.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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