bantling

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bantling
Noun
  • The Archive collection includes rare items from the 1960s through the 1990s, like adult flight suits, acid-wash denim, and a remake of one of the first infant overalls.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The program, better known as WIC, provides access to healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding education and referrals for other services to low-income pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, as well as infants and children up to age 5.
    Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While over 80% of families start out breastfeeding their baby, roughly 19% of newborns have already received infant formula two days after birth.
    Ann Kellams, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Parents bring home their newborns in Waymos.
    Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Gabriel Byrne shows up as a nasty villain known as the Chancellor, who has kidnaped the adorable moppet Ella (Ava Joyce McCarthy) and whisked her off to a bucolic Alpine village where a society of ruthless killers are able to raise, and train, their children in peace.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • So after gathering all the adults who had tried to exert influence over the hybrids in a holding cell, Wendy laid down the new laws of the land while her Xenomorph and its chestburster youngling watched menacingly on.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But even younglings with a limited attention span, who can't sit still for an entire feature film, will forever have a connection to the screen icon who died Tuesday at the age of 89.
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.
    Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The scientists also found several neonates and newborns in the area, Pardo-Pérez tells Flora Lichtman of Science Friday, which suggests that the site served as a nursery for the prehistoric animals.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 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 owners of the home said they were woken up by the crash, as was their toddler, according to CBS affiliate WBZ.
    Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Afterward, prosecutors said Smith was found to have 1,291 child pornography files, several of which involved babies and toddlers and others that showed children being violently raped.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An inspiring 60-second spot from Pampers features an array of wee tykes, all being comforted or protected by the popular Procter & Gamble diaper.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • James, who was first introduced to TV viewers as Family Matters tyke Richie Crawford, has forged an impressive career in daytime.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Bantling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bantling. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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