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Recent Examples of pup
Noun
However, staff tend not go into the breeding grounds to rescue pups. Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025 Surround yourself with puppies this weekend at the return of the Land O' Lakes Kennel Club Dog Show, which brings hundreds of pups to the Saint Paul RiverCentre Thursday through Sunday. Audrey Kennedy, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
The pupping season stretches for a few months, from the spring when coyotes are born, through the summer, when juveniles leave their parents. Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024 Coyote pupping season stretches from the time when coyotes give birth to when the pups become juveniles and leave their parents, said Niamh Quinn, human-wildlife interactions advisor for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pup 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pup
Noun
  • Woman Fosters Starving Dog Who Showed Up On Her Porch By Alyce Collins Life and Trends Reporter 0 Internet viewers have been left in tears after watching a clip of a starving boxer puppy that showed up on a woman's porch in search of help.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Will this year be different? → 8 puppies saved from trash can at Fort Worth park → 2 to 3 inches of snow possible this week [Get our breaking news alerts.
    Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Against Alexandrova on Tuesday, Raducanu won a match littered with breaks of serve by finding solidity in her groundstrokes — returning efficiently to break serve in six of her 12 return games — and accepting that changing for the long term will result in short-term hiccups.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Hologram boss battles also litter the world with scaling difficulty and rewards, so there's always something to fight and build toward.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Reid wasn’t kidding, because ice can be a bear to remove.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There is a sense that, while nobody is kidding themselves that all of those players aren’t there for the money, Neymar hasn’t bought into the Saudi project — publicly at least — as much as others.
    Nick Miller, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • At one point, an android with puppy dog eyes is introduced, only to vanish a couple of scenes later.
    Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • If all else fails, Hope says, Jack needs to put on his sad puppy dog face.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Local authorities were able to coax the bobcat kitten out of the tree and bring it some comfort.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • We're just kitten around.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • 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
  • Residing with her German foster parents on the outskirts of Munich, Liesel forges a close bond with her foster father, Hans Hubermann, who teaches her how to read and write, kindling a passion for books.
    Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • Before his death, the wolf had fathered five pups in the Copper Creek pack.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • The film explored how Cline secretly fathered 94 children, which came to light decades later when some of them sent DNA samples to 23andMe.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024

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“Pup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pup. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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