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midwife

[mid-wahyf] / ˈmɪdˌwaɪf /
NOUN
childbirth assistant
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The midwife raised the alarm and emergency teams began CPR immediately.

From BBC Aug. 31, 2026

Woodley’s work was informed by a cousin who’s a midwife, friends who are parents and a few births she’s attended.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

One midwife, who wished to remain anonymous, said that the increased costs had led many to consider their positions.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

To better understand why some populations recover while others continue to collapse, researchers studied common midwife toads living around four lakes in the Pyrenees of France and Spain that had all experienced severe Bd outbreaks.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

The midwife intimidated her, and when intimidated my mother took on a weightless quality, whisking about every time the midwife made one of her slow, solid movements.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

"On the other, we are seeing newly qualified midwives facing uncertainty about their future employment. That simply does not add up."

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

One account described newly qualified midwives being assigned "high-risk cases", while more experienced staff carry out less complex tasks, adding: "This happens all the time."

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

When Charlotte Dron gave birth to her second child Luca in 2018, there was so much blood that a nurse fainted and "midwives were shouting at each other".

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

Many of the delegates are set to march on Saturday in Lisbon for the "One Million More" campaign, drawing attention to a global shortage of midwives.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

It takes a lot of flishing here and there and much calming of the air and the midwives, but at last the baby is delivered.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

The actually existing Mets were also midwifed by Gotham honchos.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

He midwifed the country’s first farm labor bill, and was decades ahead of his time on renewable energy and climate change.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2023

The new country was cheered on in 2011 by the American diplomats who had midwifed its delivery and the Hollywood celebrities who championed its cause.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2023

Nonetheless, it was born in the shadows, midwifed by people who feared for their social position and economic well-being.

From Salon Oct. 17, 2020

Szilard’s views on the program he midwifed had traveled a tortuous path.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“There is lots to be proud of, including midwifing ten new plays by women playwrights from Los Angeles, into the American theatre through our Writers Workshop,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 2022

He's no hero – that makes Brodie-Sangster so watchable – but he is a Machiavellian force who ends up midwifing several rock luminaries to stardom whether directly or, in Hynde's case, as an oppositional springboard.

From Salon Jun. 1, 2022

And James will ironically be in the position of midwifing the next phase of America’s gun movement.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2020

Mrs. Maas, perhaps best known for midwifing the “I Love New York” campaign in the 1970s, died Nov. 16 at 86.

From Washington Post Nov. 26, 2018

Bateson knew that he was witnessing, or, rather, midwifing, the birth of a profound revolution in biology.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Langhorne was midwived in a Bethesda hospital, the middle of three sons to a father who ran a concrete company.

From Washington Post Oct. 5, 2015

I pretend neither to the spirit of prophecy, nor to any uncommon skill in predicting a crisis; much less to tell when it begins to be nascent, or is fairly midwived into the world.

From James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath



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