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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A girl born with the umbilical cord twisted round her neck may feel that she always gets herself tied up in things.
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As events would prove, it was a frail umbilical cord from the customer to design and manufacturing.
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Don't you wish you were joined by the umbilical cord again and nobody had the power to cut it?
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Severing the umbilical cord between landlords and peasants vastly increased the proportion of the population for which the centre was directly responsible.
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The maternal bond had been cut with the umbilical cord - at birth.
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When my daughter still had her umbilical cord , my husband worried about infection.
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Without this retractable umbilical cord , the soul would be utterly lost in the chaos of its dreams.