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birthplace

[burth-plays] / ˈbɜrθˌpleɪs /


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Foran left Walmart in 2020 and returned to his birthplace to become head of Air New Zealand, before taking the Kroger CEO role in February.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

In the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry, thick black crude seeps through cracks in the earth, and the air is heavy with the smell of gas, leaving visitors dizzy.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

At the other extreme, she becomes artist-in-residence of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, where she will serve as pianist, conductor and curator in Beethoven’s birthplace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Millions visit Plymouth, Mass., to see the birthplace of American self-government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

The answer lies in a process called "radial migration" -- stars gradually moving outward from their birthplaces by interacting with spiral waves in the Galaxy.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2026

Fifa investigators said the grandparents' original birth certificates showed they had been born in countries like Argentina and Spain - all corresponding with the players' birthplaces.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026

That pattern matches a practice ethnographers call patrilocality, in which men stay put while women leave their birthplaces to find mates, a pattern also seen in ancient European farmers, among others.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 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

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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