out of wedlock
Example Sentences
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“If we see that 70% of households are raising children out of wedlock, that means 30% are not,” Mr. Woodson once told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Hamilton was born out of wedlock on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
Maternity homes were popular before Roe as a place where usually teen mothers went to secretly have babies that were conceived out of wedlock.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025
One was from Dino Sajudin, a former Trump Tower doorman, who Mr Pecker said tried to sell an article in 2015 about an unsubstantiated rumour that Mr Trump once fathered a child out of wedlock.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2024
The couple’s first daughter, Dessie, had been born out of wedlock, an event entirely within the realm of what Pitezel’s parents had come to expect of their son.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
