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Recent Examples of midwife
When the woman's labor quickly began to progress, a quick-thinking hospital midwife jumped into action, throwing towels onto a couch and laying the then-expectant mother down on it.
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Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Years later, her daughter Marie-Louise, unaware of her royal blood, pursues a career as a midwife.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Ever since, as the Taliban returned to power, once again issuing edicts to suppress women and girls, the clinic and its 34-year-old midwife Atifa have continued to provide a lifeline for mothers and young children.
—Elise Blanchard, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
According to a LinkedIn page that appears to belong to Coxon, her last midwife job was at New Maitland Hospital in the Maitland suburb of Metford, but the profile doesn't appear to have been updated recently.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Years later, her daughter Marie-Louise, unaware of her royal blood, pursues a career as a midwife.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Ever since, as the Taliban returned to power, once again issuing edicts to suppress women and girls, the clinic and its 34-year-old midwife Atifa have continued to provide a lifeline for mothers and young children.
—Elise Blanchard, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
According to a LinkedIn page that appears to belong to Coxon, her last midwife job was at New Maitland Hospital in the Maitland suburb of Metford, but the profile doesn't appear to have been updated recently.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for midwife
Noun
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Certified nurse-midwives would be exempt from that requirement, but would be required to submit a plan for births outside a hospital.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The body takes a minimum of 13 weeks to recover, the nurse-midwife Helena A. Grant tells Somerstein.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2024
Noun
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This includes reducing the documentation burden for doctors and cutting different types of paperwork that nurses have to do.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Abnormal liver function tests, otherwise known as LFTs, can prompt your doctor to check your liver more carefully.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Emani Ellis' lawsuit, which was first filed in February 2020, alleged Cardi spat on her and scratched her nose during an altercation outside of an obstetrician's office.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Emani Ellis alleged that the Grammy-winning rapper cut her face with her fingernail outside an obstetrician’s office in 2018.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After a while, the physician gestures and a man places a pot at Ellen’s feet.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Around the turn of the 19th century, a Viennese physician named Franz Joseph Gall proposed a new, and controversial, hypothesis about the human brain.—
Kevin Dickinson,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
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Now, a new report by two non-profits, the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC) and the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC) has made several practical recommendations for ways to encourage docs and hospitals to better support family caregivers.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Pankiw in her doc also recounts how Lilith Fair after its first year for its second and third summer festival runs added rap and R&B artists like Missy Elliot, Neneh Cherry and Erykah Badu following criticism over a too-white event.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
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Wolfson’s last piece to appear in The Courier Journal was on a Louisville pediatrician charged with hiring a hitman to kill her husband.—
Joseph Gerth,
Louisville Courier Journal,
18 Sep. 2025
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For decades, the CDC also has worked with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to set a standard vaccine schedule for children, says Amanda Furr, MD, a pediatrician and chief medical officer at Zarminali Pediatrics.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Evelyn Griffin is an obstetrician and gynecologist based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.—
Annika Kim Constantino,Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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The best source of menopause information is your gynecologist.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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He was taken to a prison medical unit where medics tried unsuccessfully to revive him, said corrections officials in a statement Thursday.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Military medics, paramedics, and clinicians in underserved regions could all benefit from a device that reduces training demands while improving outcomes.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midwife. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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