Thesaurus results for BIRTH PANG

birth pang

noun

Definition of birth pang

as in contraction

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Recent Examples of birth pang Because the ending of what feels like the end of the world is actually just the birth pangs of a new creation. — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025 Such monstrosities, we were told, were merely the birth pangs of a new and mostly peaceful nation. — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024 The new Germany couldn’t tell its birth pangs from its death rattles. — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024 And the Affordable Care Act, for all of its birth pangs and flaws and the Republican efforts to repeal it, remains the law of the land. — Peter Baker, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 His knack for conveying compositional struggle ingeniously reflects his theme — a nation’s birth pangs. — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020

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Noun

That’s where cognition becomes impaired, muscle contraction becomes impaired, and metabolism actually slows.

— Patrick Iversen, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Such optimism had for years been hard to find in a Hollywood ravaged by the pandemic, wildfires, labor strife, contraction and technological upheaval.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of contraction

Noun

If 2024 was the growing-pains season, when Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese entered as rookies and were still paid around $75,000, 2025 was defined by impending CBA negotiations.

— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
West Nile symptoms A full 80% of those infected may not show symptoms, but 20% have flu-like symptoms, such as a fever with headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea, rash or fatigue.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of pains

Noun

Babar looked to pull Archer but, too late, tried to fend off a 91 mph (147 kph) delivery that ricocheted off his glove and helmet and ballooned to Jordan Cox at third slip.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
How can patients and communities have a say in the future of healthcare delivery?

— Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of delivery

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The trial has generated intense interest for more than a month, deeply dividing the public and drawing attention to issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.

— Michael Casey, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Some have rallied around her on social media, while others have traveled to the courthouse in person, many saying the case has raised larger questions about maternal mental health and the care available to women after childbirth.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of childbirth

Noun

When a person is immunized during pregnancy, the risk of symptomatic disease fell by 44% in their newborns up to 6 months old.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
The team parted ways with Meila Brewer on Wednesday, and Ellie Bravo-Young also announced her pregnancy, leaving the team a couple players short defensively through the stretch run this season.

— Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of pregnancy

Noun

Not least because the hips—or rather, a wide pelvis—are considered a symbol of femininity, fertility, and childbearing capacity, both from a cultural-historical and an evolutionary-biology perspective.

— Kelly Niesen, Glamour, 24 July 2026
In fact, for millennia the role of mothers has included not only childbearing and education but also protection over the community as a whole, especially through advocacy for peace.

— Marie-Claire Beaulieu, The Conversation, 5 May 2026

Definition of childbearing

Noun

This pattern spans over a decade, indicating a remarkable fidelity to the Ashburton River and its surrounding creeks as critical parturition sites.

— Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
His mother paced the spacious birthing stall, working off the pains of parturition, with half the placenta, neatly tied up by an attending stable hand, still hanging out of her.

— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021

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