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born

adjective as in innate

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As Born had shown, you could merely predict the probabilities for the various possible outcomes, using calculations informed by the wave function that Schrödinger had introduced.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Adele is a big reason why songs like Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License,” Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” and A Star is Born’s “Shallow” have clung to the charts for months on end.

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As I observed in my book, it’s awfully hard to resist the charms of someone who can make you laugh, and families abound with stories of last-borns who are the clowns of the brood.

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Second and later borns are much more invested in upending the system.

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The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

Cosby conspiracy theorists share a perspective born of a long, pained history of American racism.

A few months later, after their children were born, we visited the men and women again.

Yung Lean was born Jonatan Leandoer Håstad in Belarus, before moving to Sweden at the age of 3.

Little did I know that Lee had actually been born into a wealthy family.

To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.

Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.

This widening grasp of languages is or was within the capacity of nearly everyone born into the world—given the facilities.

That embrace, that grin and that heart-born exclamation marked the entrance of the Pulsifer family into my life.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to born, such as: constitutional, essential, natural, built-in, congenital, and deep-seated.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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