weanling

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Recent Examples of weanling The striped dolphin was a female weanling (newly independent from its mother) that stranded freshly deceased on Hampton Beach. Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023 Hungry weanlings trailing after their full-figured mothers. Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023 Along with his final price as a 2-year-old, Morello was auctioned twice previously – for $140,000 as a weanling at the 2019 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and for $200,000 as a yearling at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Sale in Kentucky. Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2022 Dory originally purchased Chase the Chaos for $10,000 as a weanling in 2019. Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2023 The 10 American Pharoah weanlings sold last November brought an average price of $445,000. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018 Fueled in part by the fascination with American Pharoah’s offspring, the average price for the 10,343 weanlings, yearlings and 2-year-olds in training sold at auction last year jumped by more than 14 percent from 2016, to $72,823. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018 These weanling seals are fully recovered and ready to return to the wild! Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weanling
Noun
  • Despite the underlying cause, the management of a sick neonate follows a consistent approach.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • This means there is a two-month window after birth where neonates are at their most vulnerable.
    Paul Sisson, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The video, which was not ultimately shown to Lively, featured an image of Heath, his wife, and their newborn after a home birth.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • As such, Herod’s massacre would have evoked a familiar Old Testament story in which the Egyptian Pharaoh orders all Jewish newborns to be slaughtered in an effort to kill the infant Moses.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Internet users can't get enough of the love between the infant and her granddad, who takes care of her from Monday to Friday when Rogers is at work.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Looking like the cross between a spermatozoon and a tadpole, this needy, frail little infant is wrapped tightly in swaddling clothes, resting on the dresser and then the drawer of poor Jack Nance’s apartment in an industrial hellscape.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The legendary Lakers star, cradling toddler daughter Bianka, paces in a darkened room at home while watching the Eagles put the finishing touches on a Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • As a mom to both a tween and a toddler, Johansson tackles a range of parenting topics from bedtime stories to handling feelings of exclusion—and even offering early lessons in dating advice.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Two people, one a juvenile, have been charged in the October 2023 shooting death of a Round Lake teenager, authorities said.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Emergency crews responded to reports of the crash in the 600 block of Main Street just before 4 p.m. involving a juvenile who was hit while crossing the street, according to Capt. Joseph M. Murgo of the East Haven Police Department.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As the years went on, Underwood began to occasionally share a rare grid photo of her kids — but most of them would be via her Instagram Story; photos that would expire after 24 hours.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
  • On a regular day to get the kids out and on their way, my alarm is set to 6:55.
    Eileen Finan, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The youngster suffered minor injuries to his head, back and arm, but refused medical attention, his mother said.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The youngster had been the latest absentee in Arsenal’s defence, with Saliba, White and Takehiro Tomiyasu sidelined.
    Art de Roché, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Research published in 2014 in the Journal of Adolescence highlights that adolescents who are high in rejection sensitivity are more likely to perceive their romantic partners as being conflictual, even when the interactions are neutral or non-hostile.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Nicotine, the primary chemical in cigarettes, is highly addictive, and the developing minds of adolescents may be especially vulnerable.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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