bearing children
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She collected some of the most fascinating information on the latter by watching Flo, an older female with a bulbous nose and an amazing retinue of suitors who was bearing children well into her 40s.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025
This finding, noted Ryan, points to some aspect of bearing children -- rather than sociocultural factors associated with early fertility or sexual activity -- as a driver of biological aging.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024
Pilgrims, Choitonbaev explained, come from around Kyrgyzstan to this spring and half a dozen others nearby to seek healing from illnesses or help bearing children.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024
Elena also obsesses over justifying her animosity toward Izzy, who came along when she thought she was done bearing children and, according to her own interpretation, is the most difficult to love of her family.
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2020
There are whole lives being lived in this place, sleeping and eating and working, bearing children and raising families and dying.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
