as in fruitfulness
motherly character or qualities
she had such maternity at such a young age that all her classmates went to her for comfort
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Recent Examples of maternity
The year before our visit, Wild Impact helped fund a new maternity wing for a nearby hospital where, in the nine months since opening, no fewer than 61 babies had been delivered.
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Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
Texas mandates bereavement care with Everly's Law The state last year became the first to mandate maternity hospitals have a cooling bassinet and train staff in bereavement care, with the passage of Everly's Law.
—Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Trump announced the weeklong pause Thursday, but Russia resumed its attacks several days before the period was set to expire, striking a maternity ward in Zaporizhzhia and a bus of Ukrainian miners, leaving 12 people dead.
—Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026
Since then, Lutalo and his group have built a maternity facility in the village of Naama and are working on an outpatient surgical center in Myanzi.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
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Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
Texas mandates bereavement care with Everly's Law The state last year became the first to mandate maternity hospitals have a cooling bassinet and train staff in bereavement care, with the passage of Everly's Law.
—Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
Trump announced the weeklong pause Thursday, but Russia resumed its attacks several days before the period was set to expire, striking a maternity ward in Zaporizhzhia and a bus of Ukrainian miners, leaving 12 people dead.
—Ashley Carnahan, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026
Since then, Lutalo and his group have built a maternity facility in the village of Naama and are working on an outpatient surgical center in Myanzi.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maternity
Noun
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With fertility rates below replacement levels, the economy cannot birth its way out.—
Katica Roy,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Griffin had been open in the past about her struggles with fertility, which included five rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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On Friday, Anthropic announced new legal, finance and product marketing capabilities for its Claude Cowork productivity tool, and released the plugins under an open-source license, enabling customization.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
5 Feb. 2026
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Until recently, the markets had assumed that companies would be buoyed by the massive amount of capex (capital expenditure) going into AI, and that AI would generate new efficiencies and higher productivity that would ultimately result in higher revenues and earnings per share.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Maternity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maternity. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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