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An observant Jew, she grew up in the United States but has always felt strong ties to her country of birth.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Some unironic astrology: To celebrate Slate’s 30th birthday, Slate writer Heather Schwedel asked several astrologers to interpret the magazine’s birth chart.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026
The gas, also known as Entonox, is used to provide temporary pain relief for women giving birth.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Yi also points to discrepancies in the reported size of individual birth cohorts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Cobblers were spies who specialized in making false documents, like birth certificates and passports, necessary to create a cover identity.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
There were 3.9 stillbirths per 1,000 live births and stillbirths in England and Wales in 2024, according to the ONS, external.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Yi said he cross-checks census records against school enrollments, hospital births, vaccine batches and household registrations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
But with Xuan and Zhang controlling the firm that arranged the surrogate births, no one looked into their backgrounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
For the analysis, scientists examined births throughout Georgia between 2017 and 2022 and connected those records with death records for fathers named on birth certificates.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Deaths, births, marriages—why, just the other day he’d heard that Nancy Clutter’s boy friend, young Bobby Rupp, had gone and got married.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
More bluntly, for many outside the tech world, these companies will be birthed as the bad guys, a remarkable swing from the early 2010s when founders were venerated as cultural heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Wyle: As you’re saying that, that’s what birthed “The Pitt.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It also created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network that ultimately birthed the internet.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
To display his photographs in rapid succession, Muybridge invented a device that birthed the motion picture.
From Slate ● May 25, 2026
She’s birthed babies, and when they grew up, helped birth their babies.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Zika can spread from a birthing parent to their child in the womb and cause congenital disabilities, which notoriously led to panic after an outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
He said there were seasonal restrictions on areas with birthing seals and wintering birds.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
The problem with the sheep was that in the shock and pain of birthing, if she was left in the herd, she would often lose track of her lamb and the lamb would die.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
