birth
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Professor Anderson added: "Until that evidence becomes available, the precise birth date of the animal kingdom remains uncertain."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
A popular subgenre of the social-media posts are new mothers discussing their hefty birth bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Two days after the Academy Awards ceremony in 1955, Saint gave birth to a son, the first of her two children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Sarah N'Guio received counselling from the charity a year after giving birth and said it saved her life, adding: "Without them, I probably would have lost my children and lost my life."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Each man a hero of America’s birth and early years.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Higher levels of education, Hispanic ethnicity and Tricare-paid births were associated with fewer deaths.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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
They offer deinfibulation - a procedure that can be carried out during pregnancy that to separate fused tissue and enable safer births.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Postpartum psychosis is a medical emergency that affects about one to two women in every 1,000 births, according to Sally Wilson, national training coordinator at the UK-based charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Voices on the phone, occasionally bearing news of births and weddings, send chills down their spines.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Sociology is in many ways the mother of all social sciences, she who hath birthed dozens of disciplines ranging from criminology to postcolonial studies to ethnic studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers spoke about how their love of awards shows birthed Las Culturistas Culture Awards, how they come up with the categories and the evolution of their podcast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
It also created the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network that ultimately birthed the internet.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
Pap laughed and shouted, “Man alive! That ol’ dog done birthed three hunters!
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
For Reece, knowing his way around the maternity ward beforehand means he can be "more independent and able to support Sophy as her birthing partner".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
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
To reduce the screwworm risk on the ranch he co-owns and manages, Diebel plans to push the birthing season for his calves to colder months when the flies are less active.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Since its heyday as a planter’s mansion, parts of the house had been used as an army bunker, a birthing hospital, and a goat barn.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
