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as in nativity
the act or instance of being born
almost from birth, he showed all the marks of future greatness
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as in ancestry
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a man of noble birth
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as in beginning
the point at which something begins
that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation
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as in biological
being such by blood and not by adoption or marriage
argued that the birth mother had not been informed of all of her options at the time of the adoption
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as in to produce
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 birth
Sylvana Quader Sinha, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
About one ninth of all US births happen in California, and in the absence of national standards for maternal care, the progress in curbing maternal mortality in the state has been profound.
—Angie Jaime, Vogue, 30 July 2025
Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
When the twins — son Eames and daughter Ellison — arrived eight weeks early on Jan. 11, 2021, a judge had not yet considered the pre-birth order, which later was denied.
—Rachel Burchfield, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2023
Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
With a supercomputer powered by 18,000 Blackwell GPUs from Nvidia, server CPUs from Qualcomm, a $10 billion collaboration with AMD, and a $10 billion partnership with Google Cloud to build a global AI hub in Dammam, Humain was birthed as one the world’s most important AI infrastructure providers.
—Jon Medved, semafor.com, 2 July 2025
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Noun
Think of a community health worker in Lusaka using an AI that analyzes a baby’s cry to detect birth asphyxia instantly.
—Sylvana Quader Sinha, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
About one ninth of all US births happen in California, and in the absence of national standards for maternal care, the progress in curbing maternal mortality in the state has been profound.
—Angie Jaime, Vogue, 30 July 2025
Adjective
Those were all Michelle MacDonald had to offer Minnesota other than a pro-gun, pro-birth agenda that in itself betrayed the commitment to objectivity and respect for the law that we are entitled to in all of our judges.
—Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
When the twins — son Eames and daughter Ellison — arrived eight weeks early on Jan. 11, 2021, a judge had not yet considered the pre-birth order, which later was denied.
—Rachel Burchfield, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2023
Verb
Carl Perkins' legacy enlivens the event Starr's timeless musical legacy fits seamlessly into the blend of blues, country and folk music that birthed rock and roll and is engrained in the American consciousness.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
With a supercomputer powered by 18,000 Blackwell GPUs from Nvidia, server CPUs from Qualcomm, a $10 billion collaboration with AMD, and a $10 billion partnership with Google Cloud to build a global AI hub in Dammam, Humain was birthed as one the world’s most important AI infrastructure providers.
—Jon Medved, semafor.com, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for birth
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In sum, despite recent claims questioning their nativity, extensive fossil and genetic evidence confirms that manatees have been present in Florida’s waters for thousands of years, with ancestors dating back over 12,000 years.—
Beth Brady,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2025
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It is decorated with celestial frescoes and houses a vast nativity scene—a traditional craft construction particularly popular in nearby Naples known as a presepe.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Despite these recent advances, understanding remains grossly inadequate regarding the descendants of Indigenous people of Mexico and Central America now living in the state, 60 percent of whom are usually considered mestizo, or of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The advanced policing technique involves submitting crime-scene DNA to public ancestry databases to narrow down the list of possible culprits.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
24 July 2025
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The Ticket Act, which is currently being considered in the United States Senate, requires ticket sellers to clearly and prominently disclose at the beginning of the transaction.—
Beck Andrew Salgado,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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The Gate 5 project has been under construction since the beginning of the year.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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Weingarten points out that the powerful drive to resolve uncertainty as quickly as possible is our brain’s biological impulse to conserve future energy.—
Amy Shoenthal,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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The real danger is that a bunch of wealthy parents-to-be who are too eager to control their children’s biological future will shell out $5,999 for a product that offers no such control.—
Arthur Caplan & James Tabery,
Scientific American,
28 July 2025
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But after years of releasing one superhero smash hit after another, Marvel has lately produced more inconsistent results at the box office.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
3 Aug. 2025
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Walmart produced about $3.3 million from April 2024 to March 2025, which is split with the county, Lawson said.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
3 Aug. 2025
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This media history considers the uneven history of working women, and the evolving technologies that make modern parenting a trial.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
31 July 2025
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Her ex, Brady, in the meantime, also had things to say about parenting.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
30 July 2025
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For instance, data must be tagged to identify its source and to track its lineage before being transferred into internal database fields and tables.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
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Alex Foxworth Alex Foxworth, originally from Greensboro, N.C., infuses her designs with sentimentality and appreciation for her family lineage.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
27 July 2025
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Saturday’s matchup is one of the 13 regular-season WNBA games on ABC, a league high since its inception.—
Aaron Tolentino,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2025
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Peterson, whose responsibilities include ordering the films, has worked on the series since its inception.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
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“Birth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/birth. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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