bottle-fed

past tense of bottle-feed
as in breast-fed

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nursed
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  • For Sofia Coppola’s remake of the 1971 Don Siegel drama, Farrell took on a role originally played by Clint Eastwood, as the wounded Union soldier who is sheltered and nursed by a group of young women in a seminary in Confederate Virginia.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • When Mbeumo converted, Liverpool were playing a man down as Mac Allister nursed a head injury on the floor.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
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“Bottle-fed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottle-fed. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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