bantlings

plural of bantling

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Noun
  • Nationally, Head Start serves roughly 750,000 infants, toddlers and preschool-age children, providing not just childcare and early learning but also free meals, health screenings and family support.
    The NPR Network, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Local public health officials have also expressed concerns about funding drying up for WIC, which supports women, infants and children with nutritional assistance and other health services.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While newborns may only consume around 8-16 ounces of formula per day on average, that amount bumps to an average of 24-40 ounces a day by 6 months of age.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Hamida discovers the newborn still attached to her corpse by umbilical cord and saves him, breastfeeding and caring for the infant as her own.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the past two years, toddlers at Bernard Jackson’s swim and wellness center in Washington, DC, have learned to float for the first time, and seniors in their eighties have practiced gentle exercises to stay strong.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Finisterre Stormbird Waterproof Jacket One hiker’s long trek is another’s short jaunt, especially for the Swiss, who are known to set out on the trail as toddlers.
    Anna Fiorentino, Travel + Leisure, 23 Oct. 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
Noun
  • In 2020, health issues and a death left Harrison's mother unable to care for the kids, Kyla Rose and Emery.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The key to raising emotionally resilient kids is the ability to repair.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hilarious hijinks that ensue are centered on a rugby-playing rascal whose initial interests in pulling chicks and working get-rich-quick schemes give way to a lifelong love of writing poetry in the post-Soviet-occupation era of the 1990s.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The baseball cliche is that chicks dig the long ball.
    Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even juveniles weighed in at around 4,000 pounds.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Nearly all arrested were adults, with only 34 juveniles arrested by the task force.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While rookies Nic Scourton and Princely Umanmielen have flashed, the trio of the two youngsters and Wonnum isn’t going to be enough for the home stretch.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The Penguins, who are strongly considering keeping the 18-year-old Kindel and the 19-year-old Brunicke in the NHL all season, don’t want the youngsters playing 82 games.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
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“Bantlings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bantlings. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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