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This year marks the nonprofit’s 25th anniversary of donating teddy bears to people suffering from all kinds of loss.—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025 According to newspaper reports, neighborhood children flocked to the scene to see the flaming teddy bears rain down upon Wooster Street.—Howard Dorre, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2025 The nonprofit raised $25,000 from donations and fundraisers to pay for making the teddy bears.—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025 As Desiree, Cox radiates charisma, a quality that pairs perfectly with her dad Wallace, a teddy bear who fumbles with the right pronouns but has swelling love and pride for his daughter.—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for teddy bear
Word History
Etymology
Teddy, nickname of Theodore Roosevelt; from a cartoon depicting the president sparing the life of a bear cub while hunting
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