How to Use to term in a Sentence

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  • The decision of whether to bring the pregnancy to term is at her sole discretion.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 14 June 2024
  • Our modern culture is one that tells teens that bringing a child to term will wreck their family’s prospects, and mark them as freaks.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Unable to take off work to get the procedure out of state, Casiano was forced to carry the child to term and watch her struggle to breathe for four hours before passing away.
    — Jourdain Searles, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2024
  • MaryAnn said she that girls or women should not be victimized twice, by being forced to carry a baby to term.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 June 2022
  • Black women are four times more likely to die carrying a child to term than their white counterpart.
    — Katie Herchenroeder, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Women’s lives are at stake, rape victims are forced to carry to term their assailant’s evidence, and children are forced to give birth.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The thought of a rape victim carrying an attacker's baby to term breaks Madison Sanders' heart.
    — Kira Caspers, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Fischer, a Democrat, is serving his third term as mayor of Kentucky's largest city and cannot run again due to term limits.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 19 June 2022
  • Rizzo, who was poised to term out of office after this year, will lead the sports authority after more than a decade in both the Missouri House and Senate.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2024
  • The standard could mean pregnant people would have to carry a pregnancy to term, even if the child could not survive after being born.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • An immigrant with few resources, the woman carried the pregnancy to term.
    — Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 7 July 2022
  • Ricketts, who like Sasse is a Republican, would otherwise be out of a political job at the end of the year due to term limits.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Women with miscarriages have been forced to endure the trauma of carrying a stillborn pregnancy to term, putting their own lives at risk.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
  • They could be forced to carry a painful and potentially life-threatening pregnancy to term.
    — Stephanie Atlan, ELLE, 19 Jan. 2023
  • But presumably is never a good word when talking about the Game of Thrones universe, and after much back and forth throughout the episode, Laena's pregnancy is unable to be brought to term.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 26 Sep. 2022
  • One of the monologues related to a woman forced to carry a dead fetus to term because doctors feared removing it would violate the law.
    — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
  • Her only options would be to carry the pregnancy to term, knowing that her baby would not survive, or travel to another state to get care.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Huizar left office in December 2020 due to term limits, after going nearly six months without his city salary.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Throughout Silicon Valley, the hype is often focused on all the wonderful things AI can create, from art to music to term papers.
    — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Such a standard would force women to carry pregnancies to term even when doctors have determined there is no chance a baby will survive outside the womb.
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • Should Meri, the wife who always wanted more children but could bring only one pregnancy to term, be allotted the same household budget as the other three wives, each of whom have five or six kids?
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Samantha Casiano Casiano said she was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term only to watch her baby die four hours after giving birth.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 19 July 2023
  • Stories of children forced to carry to term pregnancies due to rape and women facing death due to state laws have dominated headlines.
    — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
  • Government forcing women to carry their pregnancies to term because life starts at conception is a law in many red states.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
  • For years, crisis pregnancy centers, which aim to persuade women to carry their pregnancies to term, have been the focus of legal battles in health care.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • The only moral solution to an unwanted pregnancy, this thinking asserts, is for women to do the right thing: carry the baby to term and relinquish the child for adoption.
    — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • But Molla chose to bring her pregnancy to term, and, a week after delivering a healthy girl, died of sepsis, leaving her children motherless.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
  • Consider that women are already being forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term in states around the country.
    — Patricia Lopez, The Mercury News, 24 July 2024
  • Many women, especially in the South, have turned to methods outside the U.S. medical system or carried their pregnancies to term, researchers said.
    — Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Advocates argue that some women have also fallen through the cracks as the number of women who have been forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term as a result of the ban remains unknown.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024

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