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Recent Examples of midwife
That included $3 million that Odia was relying on, in part to pay her midwives.
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 5 May 2025
Goldberg makes a cameo in the feature, playing a midwife.
—Arabella Hau, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement This European Awakening was birthed not in Brussels but in the Oval Office, with the Kremlin acting as midwife.
—David McWilliams, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
In Hart’s case, that person was their midwife, Racha Tahani Lawler Queen.
—Stephanie Long, Essence, 17 Apr. 2025
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Ari Daniel, NPR, 5 May 2025
Goldberg makes a cameo in the feature, playing a midwife.
—Arabella Hau, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement This European Awakening was birthed not in Brussels but in the Oval Office, with the Kremlin acting as midwife.
—David McWilliams, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
In Hart’s case, that person was their midwife, Racha Tahani Lawler Queen.
—Stephanie Long, Essence, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for midwife
Noun
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The body takes a minimum of 13 weeks to recover, the nurse-midwife Helena A. Grant tells Somerstein.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2024
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Care that can currently be delivered by a nurse-midwife via a brief video call or online questionnaire would revert to a time-consuming and costly series of clinic visits with a physician.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Novant Health is incorporating mental health into other aspects of medical care to try to improve rates of early intervention, including asking questions about mental health during check-ups and increasing mental health staffing at doctor’s offices throughout the region.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
21 May 2025
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The Franciscan Health building at 770 Indian Boundary Road houses the Emergency Department and doctors’ offices.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
Noun
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Kering Foundation has supported La Maison des Femmes — a care center in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis for women in difficulty or victims of violence — since it was founded in 2016 by obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Ghada Hatem.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
27 Mar. 2025
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Lucca’s obstetrician might not have known to send her to genetics; her geneticist might not have been familiar with the IDENTIFY study.—
Laura Hercher,
Scientific American,
24 Mar. 2025
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By then, Bustamante had found a new passion, going back to school to become a physician’s assistant.—
Walter Villa,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2025
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As things stand right now, people with cognitive issues will usually see their primary care physician, get a referral, then have to wait for months to see a specialist, Kolachalama says.—
Korin Miller,
Flow Space,
28 May 2025
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The doc will be presented and distributed by Sony Music Vision in partnership with the RCA Records label.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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This situation is no different than any other architectural guidelines in our docs.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
30 May 2025
Noun
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In Friday's strike, only one of pediatrician Alaa al-Najjar's 10 children survived at their home near the southern city of Khan Younis.—
WAFAA SHURAFA,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
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Only one of pediatrician Alaa al-Najjar’s 10 children survived the Israeli strike on their home Friday near the southern city of Khan Yunis.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
Noun
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David Cronenberg’s coolly perverse Dead Ringers dissects the entangled psyche of identical twin gynecologists, Beverly and Elliot Mantle (an iconic dual performance by Jeremy Irons).—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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One of a handful of practicing physicians in the state legislature, Weber Pierson is leaning heavily on her experience as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist who treats children with reproductive birth defects — one of only two in Southern California.—
Kaiser Health News,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2025
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The medic noticed that her possessions, which included a CD player, CDs, medic training books and a wakeboard, were wet.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
19 May 2025
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Airstrikes killed at least 103 people, including dozens of children, Saturday night and into Sunday, hospitals and medics said.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
18 May 2025
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“Midwife.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midwife. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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