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birthplace

[burth-pleys] / ˈbɜrθˌpleɪs /


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A service will then be held in St Mary's Church in Swansea city centre on Monday, for family and invited guests, before the cortege makes its way to her birthplace of Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

In June, the company signed an agreement to explore a field in Lake Maracaibo, the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

The city was the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, in which Britain led the world through the dynamism of its capitalist system.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Not only is it a lower-cost part of the country compared to the birthplace of semiconductors in Silicon Valley, but engineers are less likely to be poached from far away, he said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 3, 2026

Ensenada, Lupita’s birthplace, was set around a beautiful, half-moon-shaped harbor and ringed with hills that were almost always dry and brown.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

However, Prof Lorente’s team whittled the candidates down to eight possible birthplaces, in Spain, Portugal and Italy.

From BBC Oct. 11, 2024

In the icy regions of their birthplaces, where planets receive little warming radiation from the star, the sub-Neptunes should indeed have sizes missing from the observed distribution.

From Science Daily Feb. 9, 2024

Each year, hordes of them surge from the ocean into Canada’s rivers and streams, swimming back to their birthplaces to spawn.

From Scientific American Oct. 30, 2023

More than a century after the momentous events of 1901, the narrator enjoys visiting Mingherian patriots’ birthplaces that have since been turned into museums.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2022

There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie




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