bantling

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Noun
  • These abuses include the murder of inmates’ infants, a fact that galvanizes the pregnant Alouette (the father of her child, Étienne, is a quarryman) into joining a plan for escape through the Paris sewers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Forty were younger children, including nine infants.
    Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The New Mexico Department of Health issued a warning Tuesday urging people to avoid consuming raw dairy products following the newborn’s death.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Illinois also broke with federal vaccine recommendations last year, deciding to continue to recommend hepatitis B vaccines for nearly all newborns and to continue to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for all children ages 6 to 23 months.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The fiddly build and lack of play features make this a Lego set that's better suited for collectors rather than younglings.
    Rich Owen, Space.com, 29 Nov. 2025
  • In theory, that should appeal to a member of the Yautja clan, or — as the case may be — a runty youngling determined to prove his worth and be accepted into his father’s clan.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.
    Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
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
  • The ball nestling into the net was greeted with the unique mix of cheers and groans in Viejas Arena that, to the gambling crowd, can mean only one thing.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The only thing these Polish cities have in common is their nestling along the Vistula River.
    Sally Susman, Time, 27 Jan. 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 12 Feb. 2026.

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