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  • adjective Alternative spelling of stillborn.

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Examples

  • Years ago, when I was living in New York, my miscarriage was still fresh in my mind and I was watching an Oprah program about the right (and necessity) of grieving over miscarriages and still-born babies.

    Joy in life or lack, thereof. « Mudpuddle 2010

  • Years ago, when I was living in New York, my miscarriage was still fresh in my mind and I was watching an Oprah program about the right (and necessity) of grieving over miscarriages and still-born babies.

    2010 January 19 « Mudpuddle 2010

  • Spot: "The Compassion of Dr. Ron Paul" -- In a moving tale of a black man with a white wife in the South this pro-Ron Paul super PAC video explains how Paul intervened to help the wife deliver what ultimately was a still-born child, while other doctors and nurses refused to do so due to their interracial marriage.

    HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - Iowa And Beyond Paul Blumenthal 2011

  • Instead, doctors told her to treat the labour as a miscarriage, not a birth, and to expect her baby to be born with serious deformities or even to be still-born.

    ProWomanProLife » New guidelines won’t help… 2009

  • Years ago, when I was living in New York, my miscarriage was still fresh in my mind and I was watching an Oprah program about the right (and necessity) of grieving over miscarriages and still-born babies.

    2010 January « Mudpuddle 2010

  • Spot: "The Compassion of Dr. Ron Paul" -- In a moving tale of a black man with a white wife in the South this pro-Ron Paul super PAC video explains how Paul intervened to help the wife deliver what ultimately was a still-born child, while other doctors and nurses refused to do so due to their interracial marriage.

    HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - Iowa And Beyond Paul Blumenthal 2011

  • She was born February 6, 1915 as a twin, but her brother was over 10 pounds and a still-born.

    Natalie Bencivenga: The Woman I Never Knew 2010

  • Twelve-year-old Fawziya Ammodi, died last fall, after three days of labor with her still-born baby.

    Madeline Wheeler: Yemen's Sacrificial Child Brides 2010

  • So, when the poor guy was in the Navy, he got sunk and ruined his back; all but two of his children were still-born or died in infancy, and one of the survivors died young; and when he became POTUS, the poor guy was murdered.

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • Twelve-year-old Fawziya Ammodi, died last fall, after three days of labor with her still-born baby.

    Yemen's Sacrificial Child Brides 2010

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