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as in nativities
the act or instance of being born
almost from birth, he showed all the marks of future greatness
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as in ancestries
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a man of noble birth
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as in beginnings
the point at which something begins
that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation
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as in produces
to bring forth from the womb
back in those days a woman her age would have birthed several children
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Recent Examples of births
CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Janell Green Smith had attended hundreds of births as a midwife.
—Bracey Harris, NBC news, 9 Jan. 2026
Even that anemic growth was only thanks to births and international arrivals.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
The sloth bear births, which mark the first at the zoo since 2013, took place in an off-exhibit den that’s part of the zoo’s Asia Trail exhibit.
—Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
Its teams treated 100,000 trauma cases, performed surgeries on 10,000 patients and handled a third of Gaza’s births, the group says.
—Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
There are more preterm births and low birth weight babies.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
That figure is roughly half the number of births recorded a decade earlier, when China began easing limits on family size, according to national statistics cited by the BBC and AP.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026
Researchers found a drastic drop in evictions and fewer preterm births and neonatal intensive care unit admissions.
—Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
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Eight other mountain gorilla births were registered in Virunga in 2025, according to park spokesman Bienvenu Bwende.
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The film charts his romances and business endeavors, including a nightclub that seemingly births the jazz movement.
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But many Chicanos trace their lineage to indigenous peoples who survived Spanish colonization, often carrying mixed indigenous, Spanish, and other ancestries, a testament to survival and cultural fusion.—
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This lack of representation is problematic for people of different ancestries because genetic risk factors differ across populations.—
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Both stories have been condensed to their main scenes and songs but still contain full stories with beginnings, middles and ends.—
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What numerology 2026 means for your life The destiny number 1 stands for new beginnings, personal responsibility, and courageous initiative.—
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Like FFRs, this method can achieve escape velocities from the Solar System, but also produces dangerous levels of radiation in its wake.—
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Cannabis produces a complex suite of bioactive compounds, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), but how these molecules evolved has long been a mystery.—
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The lineages appear to have co-existed in the region for a time.—
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Support staff who can speak confidently about lineages.—
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This previously-$30 set of Merino wool socks already has an excellent value, but the new price point is even sweeter.—
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The bakery has two trailers on the property that are used for housing and as a test kitchen for the bakers.—
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The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.—
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
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Because right now, with child care problems causing one in four parents, often mothers, to cut back working hours and one in six to leave entirely, Miami-Dade parents and businesses alike are feeling the pain.—
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Quarterbacks Brock Purdy and Jalen Hurts have outstanding pedigrees and produced in Super Bowls yet still have their detractors nationwide and within the fan base.—
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Last year, all five nominees boasted international pedigrees.—
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“Births.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/births. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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