1
a
: a young carnivorous mammal (such as a bear, fox, or lion)
b
: a young shark
2
: a young person
3
: apprentice
especially
: an inexperienced newspaper reporter
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Examples of cub in a Sentence
the kind of big story that can propel a cub reporter into the stratosphere of the newspaper world
assigned to teach a bunch of young cubs how to play baseball
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The births and deaths of their cubs were front-page news.
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ABC News, 12 Nov. 2023
Giant panda Mei Xiang and one of her cubs Bei Bei play in their enclosure Aug. 24, 2016 at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are the parents of several cubs — all of whom were conceived through artificial insemination.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
The small business will personalize the names and amount of little cubs up to a whopping 10 kids.
—Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
Grazer is known for preemptively confronting and attacking much larger bears—even the large and dominant adult males—to keep her cubs safe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
The male cub lived with its face stuck in the container for nearly two months after the initial sighting.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
Tai Shan’s mate had a male cub on August 19, 2020—just two days before the siblings’ mother, Mei Xiang, became the oldest panda in the U.S. to give birth to a healthy cub.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
In 2017, the female cub Bao Bao followed; two years later, the male cub Bei Bei also made the trip to China.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
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ABC News, 12 Nov. 2023
Giant panda Mei Xiang and one of her cubs Bei Bei play in their enclosure Aug. 24, 2016 at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
—Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
Mei Xiang and Tian Tian are the parents of several cubs — all of whom were conceived through artificial insemination.
—Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 26 Oct. 2023
The small business will personalize the names and amount of little cubs up to a whopping 10 kids.
—Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
Grazer is known for preemptively confronting and attacking much larger bears—even the large and dominant adult males—to keep her cubs safe.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Oct. 2023
The male cub lived with its face stuck in the container for nearly two months after the initial sighting.
—Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
Tai Shan’s mate had a male cub on August 19, 2020—just two days before the siblings’ mother, Mei Xiang, became the oldest panda in the U.S. to give birth to a healthy cub.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
In 2017, the female cub Bao Bao followed; two years later, the male cub Bei Bei also made the trip to China.
—Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
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cub
noun1
a
: a young flesh-eating mammal (as a bear, fox, or lion)
b
: a young shark
2
: a young person
3
: a person just learning a job : apprentice
a cub reporter
a cub pilot
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