stillborn

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Recent Examples of stillborn What's New The orca that made headlines in 2018 for carrying her stillborn calf for 17 days off the coast of Washington and British Columbia has given birth to a new baby, according to Michael Weiss, research director of the Center for Whale Research (CWR). Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 Decades later, she’s arrested for murder, despite claiming the baby was stillborn. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025 Then, in February 2022, an Arkansas woman gave birth to a stillborn baby boy named Lux, according to officials. Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025 Lampi paid $1,550 and traded five human skulls for Lux, the stillborn baby boy that was stolen from an Arkansas mortuary, the indictment says. Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stillborn
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Adjective
  • But the supposedly deceased pachyderm turned out to be a yard sculpture toppled by the wind, Palm Springs police said in a Thursday, April 3, news release.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • The researcher team tested their model on rodents and organ donors from deceased individuals.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • After an all-out war between Jacob and his enemies, scores of lifeless bodies are left on the platform in a win for the current and future Duttons, including that of Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn).
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 6 Apr. 2025
  • That renders every emotional moment (what made the original Lion King so terrific) utterly lifeless.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.
    Maya Richard-Craven, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Matthew Terrell Collins Sr., 58, and Matthew Terrell Collins Jr., 29, were pronounced dead at the scene around 6:06 p.m.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2025
  • On the second day of the year, police responded to a call where a father and his son and daughter were found dead.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In Brazil, Cuban doctors in the defunct Mais Medicos program were paid less than a third of what was paid to doctors of other nationalities in the same program, according to documents obtained by the Brazilian press.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Cohen was first elected in 2018, after Crook had ended his relatively brief career as a lobbyist for the Coalition for Connecticut Sportsmen, a defunct organization that had been run by his father, Robert T. Crook.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But the prolific writer-director’s latest provides an illustration of how the genre became somewhat fossilized via formulaic writing and overexposure even before 1950s television began churning out Western content in bulk.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Their latest project is not firing researchers or pulling funds—although there’s still plenty of that going on.
    Brian Barrett, Wired News, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But with Harden, Norman Powell and Ivica Zubac taking the majority of the shots instead of the departed Paul George and a rehabilitating Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers score 45.9 percent of their points in the paint (fifth in NBA).
    Law Murray, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
  • These spirits not only provide a thoughtful toast to the departed but also serve as a reminder of Mexico’s deep traditions and reverence for the past.
    Rachel King, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Their belief existed because of JuJu Watkins, the hometown hero who brought excellence back to USC basketball and life to a moribund fan base.
    Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • In Britain, Prime Minister Keir Starmer found fresh definition in the transatlantic tumult whipped up by Trump after a moribund start to his term that belied his landslide election win last year.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025

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“Stillborn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stillborn. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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