pregnant
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That’s right, Gunderson, the name made famous by that other Minnesota noir, the Coen brothers’ 1996 hit “Fargo,” for which Frances McDormand won an Oscar playing a very pregnant police chief, Marge Gunderson.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Others—including York, Clark’s enslaved manservant, and Sacagawea, a kidnapped Shoshone teenager pregnant with the child of the expedition’s interpreter, Charbonneau—did not have a say in the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
So, what if ridding your home of plastic helped you finally get your partner pregnant?
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
Two Metropolitan Police officers have been charged after a heavily pregnant woman and her unborn child were killed in a crash with an unmarked police car in south-east London.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Mrs. Richardson, doing some quick mental math, calculated that Mia—if this was even the same Mia—would not yet have been pregnant with Pearl that spring.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Vocabulary lists containing pregnant
"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 2
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Vocabulary from Readings 2, Unit 1
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