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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
Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
There were 9,500 births to mothers who reported a foreign address, which is statistically insignificant.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
For every 100,000 births in the state, 30 mothers die from complications during pregnancy or within six weeks afterward, according to March of Dimes.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
That number is essential for enrolling a newborn in health insurance and accessing benefits like Medicaid, which covers about 40% of births nationwide.
—Nik Popli, Time, 1 Apr. 2026
The policies vary, but most states provide some amount of prenatal and postnatal coverage, and hospitals can be reimbursed for births as well.
—Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026
But Indiana's growth is projected to slow significantly in the coming decades as natural increase — births outnumbering deaths — gradually reverts into natural decrease.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
How might these chemicals contribute to preterm births and infant deaths?
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
Babies born before 37 weeks of gestation, known as preterm births, face a higher risk of long‑term challenges affecting learning and thinking skills, according to a large new review of existing research.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
Most references to the Arbat in the ancient chronicles are connected to fires, amid mention of invasions and plagues and noble births.
—Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
There were 9,500 births to mothers who reported a foreign address, which is statistically insignificant.
—Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
For every 100,000 births in the state, 30 mothers die from complications during pregnancy or within six weeks afterward, according to March of Dimes.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 2 Apr. 2026
That number is essential for enrolling a newborn in health insurance and accessing benefits like Medicaid, which covers about 40% of births nationwide.
—Nik Popli, Time, 1 Apr. 2026
The policies vary, but most states provide some amount of prenatal and postnatal coverage, and hospitals can be reimbursed for births as well.
—Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026
But Indiana's growth is projected to slow significantly in the coming decades as natural increase — births outnumbering deaths — gradually reverts into natural decrease.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 31 Mar. 2026
How might these chemicals contribute to preterm births and infant deaths?
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
Babies born before 37 weeks of gestation, known as preterm births, face a higher risk of long‑term challenges affecting learning and thinking skills, according to a large new review of existing research.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
The film charts his romances and business endeavors, including a nightclub that seemingly births the jazz movement.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for births
Noun
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Eastern and western ancestries in Karelian Mesolithic dogs suggest that two lineages diverged during the Paleolithic.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Mar. 2026
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That drops to 49% for Hispanic/Latino patients, 29% for Black patients and even lower for mixed ancestries, the NMDP reports.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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This is an exciting year of new beginnings and adventures.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
5 Apr. 2026
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The clog, defined by its wooden sole, has humble beginnings.—
Andrea Zendejas,
Vogue,
5 Apr. 2026
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That’s the group that produces the festival.—
Adam Bell
April 2,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2026
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Film Independent produces the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards and has spent more than four decades championing independent storytelling.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
1 Apr. 2026
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That experience introduced mo‘o—continuity, succession—as a guiding thread for the triennial, reminding me that everything exists in relation and within long lineages of care.—
Wassan Al-Khudhairi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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More broadly, the discovery highlights hidden biodiversity in groundwater systems and suggests older evolutionary lineages preserved underground.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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By moving some commencements away from increasingly costly private sites, the financially ailing school district could have saved about half a million dollars a year.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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The park has a full-size soccer field, a sunken basketball court that doubles as a reservoir, a long wooden walkway raised above plantings and tall grasses, a community pavilion, a café, and a fifty-thousand-gallon cistern that captures rain for irrigation.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Messi, for example, has a lifetime deal with Adidas that will comfortably run into hundreds of millions of dollars, while Ronaldo signed a lifetime deal with Nike in 2016.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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The seal texts often introduced the owners with their names, genealogies, gender, professions and hometowns.—
Serdar Yalçin,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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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.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Barrington Elementary For more than a decade, Claudia Lopez joined other Barrington Elementary School mothers to cook a meal of turkey, potato salad, mashed potatoes, cornbread and chocoflan for Thanksgiving.—
Keri Heath,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Max Klaver,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Births.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/births. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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