stillborn

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Recent Examples of stillborn The already fraught experience turned truly tragic when the child, a girl, was stillborn. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 17 Jan. 2025 Newborns often die—Francie’s favorite aunt, Sissy, gives birth to ten stillborn children. Perri Klass, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024 What's New The orca that made headlines in 2018 for carrying her stillborn calf for 17 days off the coast of Washington and British Columbia has given birth to a new baby, according to Michael Weiss, research director of the Center for Whale Research (CWR). Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 Decades later, she’s arrested for murder, despite claiming the baby was stillborn. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stillborn
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stillborn
Adjective
  • But the supposedly deceased pachyderm turned out to be a yard sculpture toppled by the wind, Palm Springs police said in a Thursday, April 3, news release.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The researcher team tested their model on rodents and organ donors from deceased individuals.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The film tells the story of reed cutter Johan who discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land and is overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
  • An autopsy performed Saturday was inconclusive on how a 30-year-old man died after his lifeless body was found on a Near North Side street early that day, according to authorities.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
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
Adjective
  • An Oakland bicyclist is dead following a Friday night hit-and-run incident.
    Stephanie Lam, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • That being said, the dream of NXT Europe isn't dead.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In Brazil, Cuban doctors in the defunct Mais Medicos program were paid less than a third of what was paid to doctors of other nationalities in the same program, according to documents obtained by the Brazilian press.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Cohen was first elected in 2018, after Crook had ended his relatively brief career as a lobbyist for the Coalition for Connecticut Sportsmen, a defunct organization that had been run by his father, Robert T. Crook.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But the prolific writer-director’s latest provides an illustration of how the genre became somewhat fossilized via formulaic writing and overexposure even before 1950s television began churning out Western content in bulk.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • One giant got distracted by a wandering minstrel One giant overslept and started late Clues: Brumm is not the fastest builder but didn’t oversleep.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But with Harden, Norman Powell and Ivica Zubac taking the majority of the shots instead of the departed Paul George and a rehabilitating Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers score 45.9 percent of their points in the paint (fifth in NBA).
    Law Murray, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • These spirits not only provide a thoughtful toast to the departed but also serve as a reminder of Mexico’s deep traditions and reverence for the past.
    Rachel King, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The countries have benefitted from injections of cold hard cash into moribund economies.
    Meehika Barua, HubSpot, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The Rangers’ self-sabotage, from Drury to the burning-hot seat of Peter Laviolette to a moribund dressing room, has been incredible to witness.
    Arthur Staple, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Stillborn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stillborn. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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