Definition of "midwifed" [midwifed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of midwife. More commonly midwived. (verb)

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• "But a US military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan is not liberation, and nobody thinks it is, even the Iraqi Shiite political elite that Bush "midwifed" (he actually tried to forestall it by installing ex-Baathist strong man Ayad Allawi, but the Iraqi masses outfoxed him)."
• "Ajami cites Samuel Huntington to argue that democracy does not well up from the people but is often "midwifed" by the "dominant power.""
• "The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives was midwifed by hundreds of millions of dollars of unlimited, undisclosed corporate spending to consolidate and extend their domination of American politics."