as in to breast-feed
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Recent Examples of bottle-feed
The result of both inadequate support for new mothers and poor medical advice was that more and more mothers bottle-fed their babies cow’s milk.
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Made By History, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Asked to comment on the X post, Colossal replied with a quote attributed to chief animal officer James, who bottle-fed the dire wolves as babies.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
The pups fed from the surrogate for just a few days, after which the Colossal team removed them and bottle-fed them because the surrogate was actually becoming too attentive—disrupting the pups’ regular sleeping and feeding schedules.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Parents that bottle-feed will want to select bottles, formula, heating and cleaning equipment.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Helen Woodward Animal Center's foster department quickly jumped into action, organizing bottle-feeding foster homes and setting up medical appointments to ensure the puppies received the best possible care.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Parents that bottle-feed will want to select bottles, formula, heating and cleaning equipment.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Having lost its mother during a traumatic birth, the cow Lucy had to be bottle-fed and was shunned by the herd.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
But the shelter was at capacity and unable to take in the litter, so the family decided to foster the pups, who would need bottle-feeding every few hours to keep them alive.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
Made By History, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Asked to comment on the X post, Colossal replied with a quote attributed to chief animal officer James, who bottle-fed the dire wolves as babies.
—Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2025
The pups fed from the surrogate for just a few days, after which the Colossal team removed them and bottle-fed them because the surrogate was actually becoming too attentive—disrupting the pups’ regular sleeping and feeding schedules.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
Parents that bottle-feed will want to select bottles, formula, heating and cleaning equipment.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Helen Woodward Animal Center's foster department quickly jumped into action, organizing bottle-feeding foster homes and setting up medical appointments to ensure the puppies received the best possible care.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Parents that bottle-feed will want to select bottles, formula, heating and cleaning equipment.
—Nora Colomer, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
Having lost its mother during a traumatic birth, the cow Lucy had to be bottle-fed and was shunned by the herd.
—R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
But the shelter was at capacity and unable to take in the litter, so the family decided to foster the pups, who would need bottle-feeding every few hours to keep them alive.
—Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottle-feed
Verb
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There is insufficient safety data on creatine supplementation during pregnancy or breastfeeding to recommend it.—
Mary Choy,
Verywell Health,
18 Apr. 2025
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Given the prevalence of waterborne illness in the community, breastfeeding can significantly improve the health of a baby, in addition to giving them the critical nutrients that breastmilk contains.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Verb
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What are the neurons that make muscles ache and fatigue, or trigger migraines, or cause milk to flow in a mother’s breast when her baby suckles?—
Ariel Bleicher,
Quanta Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
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The older pair are named Romulus and Remus after the mythological founders of Rome, who are traditionally depicted as being suckled by a she-wolf.—
Jon Schlosberg,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Bottle-feed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottle-feed. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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