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an elephant's pregnancy can last almost a year
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Black women, Gregory said, seemed to have a higher incidence of peripartum cardiomyopathy, a rare form of heart failure arising during or shortly after pregnancy.
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Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026
That support also extended to how decisions were handled during pregnancy and labor.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
All that, plus Liev Schreiber as a pill-popping philanderer named Tag, Dakota Fanning in pregnancy prosthetics, and Donna Lynne Champlin as the beleaguered detective trying to solve the murder.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Instead, doctors subjected them to an unwanted tubal ligation surgery, in which the fallopian tubes are sealed off to permanently prevent pregnancy.
—Kimberly Turner, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
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Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026
That support also extended to how decisions were handled during pregnancy and labor.
—Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 23 May 2026
All that, plus Liev Schreiber as a pill-popping philanderer named Tag, Dakota Fanning in pregnancy prosthetics, and Donna Lynne Champlin as the beleaguered detective trying to solve the murder.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
Instead, doctors subjected them to an unwanted tubal ligation surgery, in which the fallopian tubes are sealed off to permanently prevent pregnancy.
—Kimberly Turner, The Conversation, 22 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for pregnancy
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“Pregnancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pregnancy. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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pregnancy
noun
preg·nan·cy
ˈpreg-nən(t)-sē 
plural pregnancies
: the condition of being pregnant : gestation
Medical Definition
pregnancy
noun
preg·nan·cy
ˈpreg-nən-sē
plural pregnancies
1
: the condition of being pregnant
2
: an instance of being pregnant
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