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be born
When a baby is born, it comes out of its mother's body.
My mother was forty when I was born.
You often say that a person was born at a particular time or in a particular place.
Carla was born on April 10th.
Mary was born in Glasgow in 1999.
Be careful
Don't say that someone ‘has been born’ at a particular time or in a particular place.

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