Word Finder - born

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To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.

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Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.

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To support, sustain, or endure.

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To support, keep up, or maintain.

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To press or impinge upon.

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To produce, yield, give birth to.

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(originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

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By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

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To gain or win.

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Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

You said you were born here.

The accent says otherwise, but I was born in New York.

Lucy and Dora and Charles were born in China.

I was born in America, and Mr. Anagnos was born in Greece.

She was born with a tumor.

Sharon was born shortly after my husband remarried.

Buonaparte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Born to betray any master he served.

Others are being born and there are plenty of them as it is.

I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northern Alabama.

Destiny was born less than a week after Josh died.

Oh, they swarm; the sun is too warm there; they are born too far into life for me.

Perhaps his offer of help was born of guilt.

She died when Tammy was born, didn't she?

There was the customary group of tourists with names like Bud and Ethel and Elmer and Clara— names not assigned to anyone born after World War II.

Since his current office was directly across from their bedroom, it seemed a better place for babies that Alex said could be born early.

More than likely it was born of self-preservation.

You've never seen a foal born before?

With all the foals born on your place, is this the first time you have been able to watch?

The disturbing thing to realize is we would have been those people had we been born in those times.

His father died shortly after Alex was born, so I never met either of them.

You remember being born here and everything?

Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects.

You will become the Grey God, who you were born to be, the Watcher told him.

If Lori hadn't admitted that she loved Alex the day Destiny was born, the idea that the two of them were romantically involved probably wouldn't have crossed her mind.

What a complicated situation Alex had been born into.

They were happy with each other, and whatever Destiny might have been born, she was a Barnett now.

Dandy was the first colt born on their ranch.

Our father was second born, as was his father before him.

You could ask it, "What is the number of presidents of the United States born on Friday who have older sisters, multiplied by the number of wars lost by Bolivia?" and it could instantly give you an answer.

She said that Maud was born deaf and lost her sight when she was only three months old, and that when she went to the Institution a few weeks ago, she was quite helpless.

I was not born to be forced.

And why are children born to such men as you?

This is the life he was born for.

She fought with tenacity born of desperation.

Gabriel's intense hatred was born of intense love and pain, and he'd clearly never made up his mind about her in the time they were together.

A born warrior, he earned his way out by honing his dealmaking skills.

After all, Jennifer was born in Ouray and was connected to the disputed land.

Selyn. My daughter, a hatchling born by an Immortal blood monkey.

It was a good sign that the foal would be born soon.

So far, she hadn't been there to witness any of her foals being born yet.

Rhyn considered the words born of desperation.

Katie was born about seven years after me.

They sure didn't cremate the woman, naked as the day she was born, holding on to a fountain pen!

Were you born this way?

All wolves are governed by the ruling pack into which I was born.

All werewolves are born, not turned.

Francis Osborne, 5th duke of Leeds (1751-1799), was born on the 29th of January 1751 and was educated at Westminster school and at Christ Church, Oxford.

It will be regarded as a human right—a dividend for being born a human being, your share of the inheritance that all the prior generations accumulated.

Their son, Charles Adams, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and moved to Helena, Arkansas.