birth pangs
Example Sentences
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Lemon writes that we may be seeing “the death throes of White supremacy in concert with the birth pangs of racial renaissance.”
From Washington Post
“Today’s inequalities are the birth pangs of tomorrow’s technological unemployment,” Susskind writes, and he has a point.
From New York Times
No doubt it went through the same birth pangs as all the others.
From New York Times
The country was in the process of changing, and the birth pangs of our current life were happening.
From Scientific American
As well as the death pangs, there are birth pangs right now.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
