be born with
Example Sentences
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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
Some can be born with external female genitalia but functioning testes, and are often certified as female at birth and raised as such.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
They learned well into Catherine’s 2008 pregnancy that they were both carriers for SMA, meaning there was a 25% chance their child would be born with the muscle-wasting disorder.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025
Perhaps one-third of fetal clones survive; the pregnancies can fail or a clone can be born with deformities that require euthanasia, Cerantola said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
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
