Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.

Intersex babies account for roughly one per cent of all births.

He was of noble birth, but fortune had not favored him.

without reference to birth, but solely for their qualifications

Lucy […] had no fortune, which, though a minor evil, was an evil; and she had no birth, in the high-life sense of the word, which was a greater evil.

That poets are far rarer births than kings.

Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself.

“[…] She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.” “Ha!” cried William, “that’s just where I should have put her myself. It’s the best birth at Spithead.[…]”

I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!

Kelly: Is it true we have a pod containing a baby krogan down in the cargo hold?
Shepard: Not a baby. He's a full-grown super soldier ready for combat.
Kelly: Please be careful if you decide to... err... birth him? His personality is completely unknown.

She cites some recent examples from the papers: “I birthed two babies in rapid succession”; Beyoncé “birthed her twins”; while somewhere else in the same paper a woman proudly proclaimed: “I birthed a calf!”. She ends: “My objection to the American usage is that it seems to stress rather crudely the muscular process of bringing forth a baby, whereas the graceful British English term ‘to give birth to’ is much more dignified!”

Biological evolution created a human mind that enabled cultural evolution, which now outpaces and outclasses the force that birthed it.

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