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The active nests average around 4.4 cygnets, or young swans, according to specialists at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
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Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 13 Jan. 2026
The bakers were normal people: a shop worker, a vicar’s wife, a searingly competitive sixty-three-year-old Buddhist whose coup de grâce was a flock of choux-pastry cygnets.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The theater is named after a young swan, called a cygnet.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Following the passing of his previous mate, Zeus fathered five cygnets in 2019.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
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Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 13 Jan. 2026
The bakers were normal people: a shop worker, a vicar’s wife, a searingly competitive sixty-three-year-old Buddhist whose coup de grâce was a flock of choux-pastry cygnets.
—Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The theater is named after a young swan, called a cygnet.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Following the passing of his previous mate, Zeus fathered five cygnets in 2019.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Cygnet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cygnet. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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cygnet
noun
cyg·net
ˈsig-nət 
: a young swan
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