birth
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And rubella risks causing severe birth defects in pregnant women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
Only a handful of women have given birth while in Congress, while a few dozen lawmakers are mothers to children under the age of 18.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even the public versions, which political parties and candidates routinely obtain to target ads and messages, included voters’ addresses, birth dates and party affiliations.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
It also seems stretching to credit Transcendentalism with “the birth of American literature,” especially when Mr. Nichols tells us that neither Melville nor Hawthorne “subscribed to Transcendentalism as a movement.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Remember your theory about this woman actually being Chip’s birth mother?” she whispered.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Government data, according to the institute, showed that there were 9,600 births to mothers with foreign addresses in 2024.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
As filming was finishing, the conservancy became home to the first ploughshare births in captivity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Between 2016 and 2023, first births among women 35 and older increased 25%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Recent CDC data analyzing the years 1990 to 2023 found that births to women 40 and over increased a whopping 193%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I’d seen a couple of births on that cable-TV show, and people usually yelled for a while; sometimes they swore and it had to be bleeped, but it never took longer than half an hour.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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
Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers spoke about how their love of awards shows birthed Las Culturistas Culture Awards, how they come up with the categories and the evolution of their podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
It also created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network that ultimately birthed the internet.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 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
Not with the big bang that birthed them, but with a whimper and a gasp.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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
The city is ever-evolving, the past giving way to the future, birthing new guises and blurring the old.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
I see her death as a profound failure of the systems meant to protect birthing mothers.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2026
It be like knowing you can always start again, that you can always create and make something because you are made for birthing.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
