1
a
: a young carnivorous mammal (such as a bear, fox, or lion)
b
: a young shark
2
: a young person
3
: apprentice
especially
: an inexperienced newspaper reporter
Synonyms
Examples of cub in a Sentence
the kind of big story that can propel a cub reporter into the stratosphere of the newspaper world
assigned to teach a bunch of young cubs how to play baseball
Recent Examples on the Web
Officials didn’t say where the cub would eventually be released.
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Brooke Baitinger, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
As the cub wandered away, its mother looked on with a watchful eye.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
The Game Commission also tranquilized the cubs, police said, and they are expected to be released in an unknown location.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
Bai Yun went on to have five other cubs born at the zoo with her other mate, Gao Gao, making the pair the most reproductively successful panda parents in captivity.
—Jenna Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
The gunshot wound wasn’t severe, and after antibiotic treatment, the cub healed.
—Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
One of the cubs rescued had to be euthanized after sustaining a life-threatening leg injury.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 29 Feb. 2024
Bai Yun's first cub, Hua Mei, was also the first panda born through artificial insemination to survive into adulthood outside of China, and would go on to produce 12 cubs on her own after she was sent to China.
—CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
Three men — one of them holding a young girl — began sprinting toward the mother bear and her cubs.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
Brooke Baitinger, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
As the cub wandered away, its mother looked on with a watchful eye.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
The Game Commission also tranquilized the cubs, police said, and they are expected to be released in an unknown location.
—Antonio Planas, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
Bai Yun went on to have five other cubs born at the zoo with her other mate, Gao Gao, making the pair the most reproductively successful panda parents in captivity.
—Jenna Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
The gunshot wound wasn’t severe, and after antibiotic treatment, the cub healed.
—Makiya Seminera, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
One of the cubs rescued had to be euthanized after sustaining a life-threatening leg injury.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 29 Feb. 2024
Bai Yun's first cub, Hua Mei, was also the first panda born through artificial insemination to survive into adulthood outside of China, and would go on to produce 12 cubs on her own after she was sent to China.
—CBS News, 22 Feb. 2024
Three men — one of them holding a young girl — began sprinting toward the mother bear and her cubs.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
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cub
noun1
a
: a young flesh-eating mammal (as a bear, fox, or lion)
b
: a young shark
2
: a young person
3
: a person just learning a job : apprentice
a cub reporter
a cub pilot
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