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birthplace

[burth-pleys] / ˈbɜrθˌpleɪs /


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

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

It said the site was also "the birthplace of future UK science pioneers", as it welcomed "more than 25,000 schoolchildren every year".

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Austria will formally open a new police station on Wednesday in Adolf Hitler's former house, in the hope of deterring today's ascendant far-right extremists from making the pilgrimage to the Nazi dictator's birthplace.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 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

Little is known about his youth, but it seems that Archimedes was born around 287 BC in Samos, Pythagoras’s birthplace.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But Fifa said investigators obtained original birth certificates of the grandparents, which showed that they were born in countries like Argentina and Spain - all corresponding with the players' birthplaces.

From BBC Oct. 7, 2025

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

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

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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