"Partial-Birth"

[Dave Wilton]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Fred Shapiro wrote:

>My bad.  I searched for "partial birth" in the online OED and nothing
>came up.  I guess I should have moved on to examining the entry for
>"partial," where I would have found it.

When searching for word phrases in the OED, I always use the Advanced Search
facility and do a full-text search. If I get too many hits, I then narrow
the search to "lemma," "quotation text," or whatever seems appropriate in
that case.

This also has the advantage of turning up related words and phrases. In this
case, "dilation and extraction" also comes up.

--Dave Wilton
  dave at wilton.net

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