be born
Example Sentences
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So Florence Balogun returned to Brooklyn, where she had been visiting relatives, and waited for her second son to be born.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026
I did not ask to be born with the aesthetic preferences of a 12-year-old on 4chan, and yet, here we are.
From Slate • Jun. 14, 2026
We are therefore once again in a Gramscian bind, caught between the old which will not die and the new which struggles to be born.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The judge also found that she knew the baby would be born alive through Caesarean section.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026
A grandson could be born with his grandmother’s nose or her skin color, without that feature being visible in either parent—a phenomenon virtually impossible to explain in terms of Pythagoras’s scheme of purely patrilineal heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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