bantling

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Noun
  • Her two-year-old daughter and an infant son were found in the home, unharmed, according to police.
    Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 May 2026
  • Northwestern said the device was designed especially for patients who cannot verbalize or otherwise communicate discomfort from stress, such as infants and some elderly patients.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Two days before Mother’s Day, Newsom also introduced a plan to provide 400 free diapers for California newborns at select hospitals beginning this summer.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • ProPublica recently reported that babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given to newborns that can promote clotting.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 13 May 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 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
  • Wearing latex or nitrile gloves can help prevent your scent from clinging to the nestling and attracting predators.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 12 Apr. 2026
  • 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
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 18 May. 2026.

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