be born
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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
Howletts Wild Animal Park, near Canterbury, said they were the first of the breed to be born at the site.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
It began when two married men asked Judge Marlon Weiss to issue a pre-birth order acknowledging them as the lawful parents of a child who was about to be born via surrogacy.
From Slate • May 13, 2026
It gave multiple generations the assurance that we couldn’t easily be deported, unlike others we knew who didn’t have the good fortune to be born here.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
Babies take a long time to be born, almost a year.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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