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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
Woman Fosters Starving Dog Who Showed Up On Her Porch
By Alyce Collins
Life and Trends Reporter
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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
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Jan. 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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