Both words in one sentence
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Inverse Law of Fertility: Claudia desperately wants a child, but she only carries to term/gets pregnant (the film doesn't specify which) the one time.
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Claudia desperately wants a child in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, but she only carries to term/gets pregnant (the film doesn't specify which) the one time in nine years.
Source: Law of Inverse Fertility - For example, the term "landline phone" didn't need to exist in 1985; there were home phones, work phones, and pay phones, but there was no need to specify that it was a hard-wired connection, because almost nobody knew of any other kind.
Source: Retronym
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