quadruplets

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The couple had an "incredibly challenging time" raising their children, she says, in particular the quadruplets.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

“That would be so fun meeting chickens,” said 7-year-old Mason, who wore a matching yellow sweater with his fellow quadruplets.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024

They theorized that the atom is actually doing many things simultaneously: scattering not only single photons but also, through an entirely different process, photonic pairs, triplets and quadruplets.

From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2023

Speaking by phone, he told me about the call he received from a colleague that led to the first selective reduction procedure: A woman in Western Michigan had become pregnant with quadruplets.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2022

According to his deductions, twins occur once in 88 births; triplets, once in 7910; and quadruplets, once in 371,126.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)