birthplace
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Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison faces a pivotal decision: Should he uproot his Hollywood studio — the birthplace of such film classics as “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Godfather” and “Beverly Hills Cop”?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
At the other extreme, she becomes artist-in-residence of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, where she will serve as pianist, conductor and curator in Beethoven’s birthplace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Millions visit Plymouth, Mass., to see the birthplace of American self-government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The city is the birthplace of the modern hot air balloon, dating back to 1967 when the Bristol Belle was built and flown in the area.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Sam was no help—he was fond of his birthplace and an advocate of South Carolina’s evolution on matters of race.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
However, Prof Lorente’s team whittled the candidates down to eight possible birthplaces, in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2024
That pattern matches a practice ethnographers call patrilocality, in which men stay put while women leave their birthplaces to find mates, a pattern also seen in ancient European farmers, among others.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
In the icy regions of their birthplaces, where planets receive little warming radiation from the star, the sub-Neptunes should indeed have sizes missing from the observed distribution.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
Each year, hordes of them surge from the ocean into Canada’s rivers and streams, swimming back to their birthplaces to spawn.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 30, 2023
There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
