birth pangs
Example Sentences
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Colin adds that despite the franchise's birth pangs, there was a sense within the original team that they were on to something.
From BBC
Among "birth pangs," a "hollow" and "a vacancy," "The Rabbit Catcher" includes objects that resemble umbilical cords.
From Salon
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
His knack for conveying compositional struggle ingeniously reflects his theme — a nation’s birth pangs.
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
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