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Sotomayor explained that the plaintiff “did not dispute” that “sex” in Title IX means “biological sex,” or sex was assigned at birth.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
Due to longer life expectancy and declining birth rates, the world is getting older — and that shift is changing how people live, work, spend and manage their money.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The EU executive's Joint Research Centre said life expectancy at birth reached 81.5 years in 2024.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Jewish by birth, Disraeli was a departure from the aristocrats and country gentlemen whose party he refashioned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
There are typically only two reasons why a female panda would stop the bamboo eat-a-thon: if she were giving birth or tending to her new cub.
From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh
Recent CDC data analyzing the years 1990 to 2023 found that births to women 40 and over increased a whopping 193%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
"Low births are a national crisis. We had to do something about it," Yoo says.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Despite a significant proportion of American births to single mothers, the number of unmarried women giving birth has actually been decreasing for the past decade, with the decline largely driven by teenagers and working-class women.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
And although she wants more oversight of rescues, she said the most important thing is to eliminate unwanted animal births.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
But the phoenix does not die, and monstrous births do not resemble their parents.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In the wake of the Manhattan Project that birthed the atomic era — and with it, the ever-present threat of nuclear war — people acted immediately to bring attention to this new threat.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Some new fortunes were birthed out of Harvard Management, which runs Harvard’s endowment—overseen by uncle and nephew Paul and Walter Cabot in the latter half of the last century.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
This epistemic shift has birthed a lucrative wellness industry, featuring all manner of advice, concerns, and devices, where a frightening sales pitch or emotional story takes the place of scientific consensus.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
Or tour the labs where their creations were birthed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
“Look what Mr. Clayton gave me,” he said, and honestly, you would have thought it was a six-pound baby he’d birthed by the proud look of him.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Like the spine, the human pelvis must balance two competing demands: efficient bipedal walking and birthing large-brained infants.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
The state plans to later expand to additional hospitals and birthing centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
Doctors at St. Louis-based Mercy, which runs birthing hospitals in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, began noticing an uptick in families turning down the vitamin K shot during the pandemic.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
The city is ever-evolving, the past giving way to the future, birthing new guises and blurring the old.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
It was, she knew, where the Products were taken after the birthing.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
