Examples of pregnancy in a Sentence
an elephant's pregnancy can last almost a year
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People whose pregnancies end in stillbirths, have much higher risk for postpartum depression.
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Emotivo Health, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
But a union with a married man, and an attendant pregnancy, led her to cut short her studies and follow her lover to Chile.
—Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2024
Wendy Bach, a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and one of the lead researchers on the project, said one of the cases was when a woman delivered a stillborn baby at her home about six or seven months into pregnancy.
—Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
Do the changes to the brain that happen during and after pregnancy explain these misty moments of cognition?
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 25 Sep. 2024
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Emotivo Health, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
But a union with a married man, and an attendant pregnancy, led her to cut short her studies and follow her lover to Chile.
—Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 25 Sep. 2024
Wendy Bach, a professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and one of the lead researchers on the project, said one of the cases was when a woman delivered a stillborn baby at her home about six or seven months into pregnancy.
—Geoff Mulvihill, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
Do the changes to the brain that happen during and after pregnancy explain these misty moments of cognition?
—Melissa Willets, Parents, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Pregnancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pregnancy. Accessed 6 Oct. 2024.
Copy CitationKids Definition
pregnancy
noun
preg·nan·cy
ˈpreg-nən(t)-sē 
plural pregnancies
: the condition of being pregnant : gestation
Medical Definition
pregnancy
noun
preg·nan·cy
ˈpreg-nən-sē
plural pregnancies
1
: the condition of being pregnant
2
: an instance of being pregnant
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