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birth pangs
plural noun
- pains associated with the process of childbirth.
- Informal. the hardships and difficulties accompanying a major innovation, change, or new venture.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of birth pangs1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Colin adds that despite the franchise's birth pangs, there was a sense within the original team that they were on to something.
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Among "birth pangs," a "hollow" and "a vacancy," "The Rabbit Catcher" includes objects that resemble umbilical cords.
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Lemon writes that we may be seeing “the death throes of White supremacy in concert with the birth pangs of racial renaissance.”
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His knack for conveying compositional struggle ingeniously reflects his theme — a nation’s birth pangs.
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“Today’s inequalities are the birth pangs of tomorrow’s technological unemployment,” Susskind writes, and he has a point.
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