as in fruitfulness
motherly character or qualities
she had such maternity at such a young age that all her classmates went to her for comfort
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Margot Robbie is continuing on with her refined maternity style.
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2024
So four regional hospitals, huge hospitals for the whole region, are equipped with regenerative energy, solar power and energy storage, allowing for intensive care and surgery units and maternity units.
—Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2024
In an audio message sent in Arabic to ABC News, Dr. Eid Sabah, the director of the nursing department at Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the maternity ward is overflowing with children who were transferred from the ICU to accommodate the growing number of patients.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
Eventually, the filmmaker and actress installed themselves in the village’s maternity ward but only after Kulumbegashvili had already spent a year in the clinic with her cinematographer Arseni Khachaturan, shadowing doctors and talking to pregnant women and observing births.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 9 Oct. 2024
So four regional hospitals, huge hospitals for the whole region, are equipped with regenerative energy, solar power and energy storage, allowing for intensive care and surgery units and maternity units.
—Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2024
In an audio message sent in Arabic to ABC News, Dr. Eid Sabah, the director of the nursing department at Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the maternity ward is overflowing with children who were transferred from the ICU to accommodate the growing number of patients.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
Eventually, the filmmaker and actress installed themselves in the village’s maternity ward but only after Kulumbegashvili had already spent a year in the clinic with her cinematographer Arseni Khachaturan, shadowing doctors and talking to pregnant women and observing births.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Maternity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maternity. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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