bantling

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Noun
  • The Olathe Police Department was seeking the public’s help in locating 7-month-old infant and her mother, 28-year-old Caprice Viehouser, who were last seen May 28 near the 2100 block of East Arrowhead Drive.
    Emily Harter, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2026
  • With the exception of infant formula, that isn’t the case, Collins said.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • That lack of legal status might make some newborns immediately eligible for deportation.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 26 June 2026
  • This free reading program for children from newborns to age 8 at West Atlanta Watershed Alliance includes a hands-on activity.
    Elizabeth Green, AJC.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Flesh wounds, fetid moppets, breastmilk-leaking nipples, and sudden gushes of blood make for a Monty Python-style of ribald humor that will alienate and enchant in equal measure.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2026
  • With Pixar-wide eyes and a mop of intricately tousled, treacle-brown hair, the young David (voiced by Brandon Engman) presents here as a plucky, intrepid moppet in the typical cartoon-hero mold.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Those 27 episodes cover Mando and the child’s first meeting, their travels as the bounty hunter grows increasingly protective of his charge, the Mandalorian’s quest to reunite Grogu with the Jedi, the youngling’s snackish habits, Mandalorian history and more.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2026
  • Baby animals by themselves are often not actually abandoned Young animals may seem alone, Heilbrun said, but their parents are typically close by and will come back to care for the youngling.
    Yvette Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2026
Noun
  • There have been publications about nicotine transmission and neonates after blood transfusion.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 1 June 2026
  • For studies measuring neonates’ looking time at faces, this included 667 infants, half of them boys and half of them girls.
    Lise Eliot, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • White sharks gather near rookeries for a buffet as weanlings begin heading out to sea.
    Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Look for a Nest If the bird is a nestling, our experts recommend gently placing it back in its nest.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 10 June 2026
  • If a nestling is in distress, the department said to contact the San Dimas Raptor Rescue Center for advice at (626) 559-5732.
    Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • Unlikely Meathead, a whelp who spoke from a position of occasionally whiny, frequently wet-behind-the-ears insulation from life’s realities, Reiner had gray in his beard and a lengthy track record of using his podium for good.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Bantling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bantling. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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