births 1 of 2

noun

Definition of birthsnext
plural of birth
1
as in nativities
the act or instance of being born almost from birth, he showed all the marks of future greatness

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as in ancestries
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended a man of noble birth

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as in beginnings
the point at which something begins that 12-second flight by Orville Wright marked the birth of aviation

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births

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verb

present tense third-person singular of birth, chiefly dialect
as in produces
to bring forth from the womb back in those days a woman her age would have birthed several children

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  1. produces
  2. delivers
  3. families
  4. origins
Verb
  • Legendary develops, produces, markets, and finances major films for global audiences, while also maintaining leading television, comic book, video game, licensing, and merchandising divisions.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The Sazerac Company now owns the brand and produces the bourbon at Buffalo Trace Distillery.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • The Aston Martin Valhalla packs a power punch and delivers a number of firsts for the company.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The limited series also has an interactive color display on the hand controller that delivers data from every session.
    Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of delivers
Noun
  • The rest came from the Sandy Hook families, who agreed to put some of the potential money from their defamation lawsuit against Jones toward the bid, The New York Times reported.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Last month, the Onion gleefully revealed its winning bid for Infowars, which was sued into bankruptcy (as was Jones) after the families of victims in the Sandy Hook mass shooting in Connecticut won a judgment in 2022 against Jones in a defamation suit.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • Using the government to prop up bitcoin is an interesting maneuver for a technology whose origins lie in decentralization.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The goose game has its origins in a 16th-century board game once played at the court of the Medici and famously gifted to Spain’s King Philip II.
    John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
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