1
as in gone
containing unborn young within the body
we only realized that our cat had been pregnant when she unexpectedly delivered three kittens
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as in suggestive
clearly conveying a special meaning (as one's mood)
a pregnant silence followed the ill-advised attempt at humor
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Recent Examples of pregnant
Still, there’s no proof that dietary changes alone can cause a person struggling with fertility to become pregnant.
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Chantelle Lee, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Wanting to take half the meal off his pregnant wife is [what’s] selfish.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Medicaid, a federal program administered by the states, offers health coverage to low-income individuals, pregnant women and individuals with disabilities (Medicare is a separate program that covers older Americans).
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
The decent movie stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as the pregnant wife of a drug lord, and follows as she Lady Macbeths her way into the family business.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
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Chantelle Lee, Time, 10 Apr. 2025
Wanting to take half the meal off his pregnant wife is [what’s] selfish.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 16 Mar. 2025
Medicaid, a federal program administered by the states, offers health coverage to low-income individuals, pregnant women and individuals with disabilities (Medicare is a separate program that covers older Americans).
—Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
The decent movie stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as the pregnant wife of a drug lord, and follows as she Lady Macbeths her way into the family business.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pregnant
Adjective
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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
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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
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This revelation tempers the expectations of a Dynasty revival despite the suggestive interactions and Hammerstone's social media activity.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
25 Mar. 2025
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The conversation even turned a bit suggestive toward the end of the episode, when Chung pulled out a series of questions from a jar to ask her husband.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Trump is demanding that his Justice Department investigate both men, which is a clear abuse of power as well as a revealing example of Trump’s escalation from nasty tweets about his political opponents to unleashing federal prosecutors on them.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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Val Kilmer was tremendously candid about his life and career, between a revealing 2020 memoir and an intimate 2021 documentary.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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Breastfeeding Happy Hour support group: Hosted by the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program at the Florida Department of Health in Osceola County for expectant and new moms.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025
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So the excited couple began making all the usual plans of expectant parents.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Notably, the hues of navy and blue work well together to portray the actor as eloquent in matters of style.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
18 Apr. 2025
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His book is a distraught but eloquent cry against our tolerance for other people’s calamities.—
Fintan O’Toole,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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The next steps include speeding up the AI's processing, making the output voice more expressive and exploring ways to incorporate tone, pitch and loudness variations into the synthesized speech.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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For a generation of music-and-fashion obsessives, Williams, 52, is revered as the original hip-hop eccentric: highly expressive, unapologetically audacious, unafraid to flout menswear conventions, especially the hypermasculine tropes ascribed to rap music.—
Chioma Nnadi,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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The thicker frame is reminiscent of an earlier era filled with outstanding fashion.—
Christopher Murray,
FOXNews.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Low-profile keyboards seem to be growing in popularity as regular profile mechanical keyboards are reminiscent of the clunky old keyboards used on mainframe computer terminals in the 1970s.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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What can leaders do to create an environment where employees can thrive with meaningful work?—
Rodger Dean Duncan,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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This accountability between sustainability initiatives and resilience among uncertainty is sparking more honest conversations, leading to more realistic goal setting and, ultimately, more meaningful progress.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Pregnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pregnant. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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