adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unborn baby (= not yet born )
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Drinking alcohol is bad for your unborn baby.
an unborn child (= a baby that is still inside its mother )
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Smoking can damage your unborn child.
an unborn infant
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Unborn infants can hear certain sounds while still in the mother’s womb.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
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Strokes can even occur in unborn babies and small children.
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Abortion is not a painless procedure, it kills a living unborn baby and can scar a woman both emotionally and physically.
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Another use is to produce pictures of an unborn baby by reflecting ultrasonic waves off its body.
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About 2,000 abortions a year are carried out due to abnormalities found in unborn babies .
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How cold she have been so callous as to forget Berenice's unborn baby ?
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Jake was tied to Janice by their unborn baby .
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She was so concerned about her unborn baby , she usually over-reacted to any untoward symptom.
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But the fact is that Courtney's dealing the hand of an unborn baby as well as her own.
child
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Suddenly Jane was very frightened - for herself, for Mousa, and for her unborn child .
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An infected female who becomes pregnant could infect her unborn child .
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As she was seven months pregnant at the time, Geraldine feared not only for herself but also for her unborn child .
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The third method is maternal transmission between an infected and pregnant woman and her unborn child .
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She pressed her stomach with affection for her unborn child .
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Happened all the time, women witnessing events that deformed their unborn children .
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Damage An unborn child lacks the status to be the subject of a legal duty.
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How dare you try to cut off funding for an unborn child .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 26-year-old woman lost her unborn child when shrapnel tore into her abdomen.
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But Zeus rescued her unborn child, sewed it up in his own thigh, and brought it forth afterwards.
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During pregnancy her unborn child strips her of nourishment for its own metabolic needs, so she becomes still weaker.
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I was still unborn , hammering at the egg, to get out into the air.
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If injury is done to an unborn child, no duty is broken.
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It is the innocent who are killed, the unborn children.
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The report also notes evidence that secondary smoke from other people's cigarette harms unborn children too.
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There he is, happy, and I am unborn .