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Recent Examples of kitten
Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Visitors can cuddle and play with up to 30 cats and kittens for an hour.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Gregg Doyel, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
Puppy and kitten sales make up more than 80% of owner Suk’s annual revenue, the lawsuit says.
—Dallas News, 28 May 2022
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Noun
As the kitten stands in her way, Lulu jumps over him, with a smooth move that got users in the comments comparing her to a bunny.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Visitors can cuddle and play with up to 30 cats and kittens for an hour.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
So many unwanted cats and dogs – kitten and puppies – in our country.
—Gregg Doyel, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022
Puppy and kitten sales make up more than 80% of owner Suk’s annual revenue, the lawsuit says.
—Dallas News, 28 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitten
Noun
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The kitty in the Facebook post, Biscuit, and her two toy poodles, Miss Daisy and Billy, are her models.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
9 Jan. 2025
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Content kitties will lay on their side with their stomach exposed and tail loosely positioned around their body, feline behavior and training consultant Marci Koski previously told USA TODAY.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
12 Dec. 2024
Verb
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For the pupping season, which lasts from about December to April, the males are fasting from both food and water in order to devote all their energy to defend their harem.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
The Mercury News,
3 Jan. 2025
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Their pupping sites in the shallower northeastern Caspian Sea are shifting and disappearing, as the animals also struggle against pollution and overfishing.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN,
24 Oct. 2024
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The move also prompted the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to step up oversight of turkey slaughter, after a bird flu strain detected in raw pet food and an infected cat was linked to a turkey flock.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
21 Jan. 2025
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This will keep your cats safely in and other animals out.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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All kidding aside, the Wild have surpassed the expectations of many, including The Athletic staff.—
Michael Russo,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Justin Sherman: The TikTok Discourse Is Nonsense Anyone who perceives that the Chinese government can't pick a tech company in its borders and coerce it to support state efforts is kidding themselves.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Buyers can upgrade it into a four-sleeper by adding the optional bed expansion kit that widens the lower bed into a 74 x 47-in (188 x 119-cm) double.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Jan. 2025
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At the time, his form and attitude in Brazil’s famed yellow kit was heavily criticized.—
Felipe Cardenas,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Australia’s primary legacy on Bougainville is Panguna, a colossal, open-pit copper and gold mine that, while dormant, is still one of the largest on earth, and whose controversial operation kindled the Bougainvillean uprising.—
Sean Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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Tunisians have tried to protest Saied’s authoritarianism, kindling hope among observers that the country might return to its democratizing trajectory.—
Sarah E. Yerkes,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Nov. 2024
Verb
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In the world of Eraserhead, the first feature of David Lynch, everything is emphatically not fine: Strange industrial noises fill the soundtrack, all efforts at human connection go awry, and worst of all, our hero has fathered a disgusting inhuman creature the wriggles and oozes all over its crib.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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Before his death, the wolf had fathered five pups in the Copper Creek pack.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
8 Jan. 2025
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The alpha male was a foster, and his mate whelped — or gave birth — during the same week, making the pack an ideal candidate to receive pups.—
Hayleigh Evans,
The Arizona Republic,
29 July 2024
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When a captive mother whelps, or gives birth on her own, managers match her pups with a wild den using GPS coordinates from radio collars placed on packs’ breeding alpha male and female.—
Hayleigh Evans,
The Arizona Republic,
3 May 2024
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“Kitten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitten. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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