baby
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"I was a war baby so I can remember incendiary bombs dropping on me and we'd have to shelter under the stairs. So the Second World War to me was apocalyptic".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"They want me to sign a paper that says that if the baby dies due to lack of a nursery, they won't be responsible."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
It would center the woman, not just her baby, and recognize the perceived benefit she is weighing against the risks.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Or just ‘cause I’m singing about a woman having a baby doesn’t mean I have to wear a maternity smock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
I didn’t want her baby and she didn’t want to give it to me.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
They witnessed families separated, babies passed over fences, civilians crushed in the crowds, and Afghan allies turned away because they lacked the necessary paperwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
He cited the need to protect babies from being stolen, something that has happened before at government hospitals.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Researchers obviously can’t run that experiment on real babies – split them into groups, feed one group sugar, then wait 70 years to see what happens.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
He said that nearly 40 percent of children admitted to hospitals with severe wasting and medical complications were babies under the age of six months old.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Sleepy people were sitting and lying on benches fashioned from tree trunks, including women with children, and babies on their backs.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
“You got babied, that’s why you ain’t win,” O’Neal told Barkley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
It also doesn’t include fellow all-star Tony Gonsolin because the Los Angeles Dodgers have so babied his development that he doesn’t have a 20-start season yet.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
I babied those potatoes so they would not brown.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
In bitter January temperatures, that range fell closer to 225 miles, no matter how I babied the throttle or dialed back on cabin temps.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
Claudia also thought that he was terribly babied and impossibly spoiled.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
Her boss, off camera, says she is tired of babying Ms. Garcia.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Choosing climate-adapted plants also means you’ll save on your water bill, as well as time spent babying or replacing plants.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
But breaking the habit of babying your puppy will prep it for being touched by other people in different situations.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022
We don’t need a lot of hand-holding and babying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
Ray sucked his teeth, like she was babying me.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
