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as in gone
containing unborn young within the body we only realized that our cat had been pregnant when she unexpectedly delivered three kittens

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as in suggestive
clearly conveying a special meaning (as one's mood) a pregnant silence followed the ill-advised attempt at humor

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Recent Examples of pregnant Most of the time, her pregnant patients are relatively healthy. Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025 Mc Adam commissioned artist Athena Anastasiou to create a mixed-media portrait of her swimming in the Irish Sea while pregnant with her second son. Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 23 Apr. 2025 Isotretinoin is known to cause severe birth defects and miscarriages in people who are pregnant, says Wong. Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025 Her doctor reassured her treatment options existed for pregnant women, and in her first trimester, Louis began chemotherapy for de novo metastatic breast cancer, which had also spread to her liver. Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pregnant
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Adjective
  • So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
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  • Mackintosh and Bourne mitigate the damage by grouping some songs together and presenting them in an ingeniously suggestive dramatic fashion.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2025
  • This revelation tempers the expectations of a Dynasty revival despite the suggestive interactions and Hammerstone's social media activity.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
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  • Trump is demanding that his Justice Department investigate both men, which is a clear abuse of power as well as a revealing example of Trump’s escalation from nasty tweets about his political opponents to unleashing federal prosecutors on them.
    Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Val Kilmer was tremendously candid about his life and career, between a revealing 2020 memoir and an intimate 2021 documentary.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
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  • The vast majority of expectant parents in the United States don’t have access to the extreme-screening services provided by the likes of Orchid and Genomic Prediction, and thus don’t have to personally confront the ethical questions that the technology raises.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The expectant mom shared an adorable video on TikTok (@taylorlrodriguez) showing the moment Storm rested his head on her pregnant belly and felt the baby kick for the first time.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • Notably, the hues of navy and blue work well together to portray the actor as eloquent in matters of style.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 18 Apr. 2025
  • His book is a distraught but eloquent cry against our tolerance for other people’s calamities.
    Fintan O’Toole, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
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  • The next steps include speeding up the AI's processing, making the output voice more expressive and exploring ways to incorporate tone, pitch and loudness variations into the synthesized speech.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.
    Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
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  • The thicker frame is reminiscent of an earlier era filled with outstanding fashion.
    Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Low-profile keyboards seem to be growing in popularity as regular profile mechanical keyboards are reminiscent of the clunky old keyboards used on mainframe computer terminals in the 1970s.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • Harvard must investigate and carry out meaningful discipline for all violations that occurred during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years, including the Harvard Business School protest of October 2023, the University Hall sit-in of November 2023, and the spring encampment of 2024.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
  • This dynamic, along with changing political sentiment, could have a meaningful impact on demand for our products in the near-term.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Pregnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pregnant. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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