bottle-feed

as in to breast-feed

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Recent Examples of bottle-feed Young felines may need bottle-feeding every few hours; warmth from blankets or heating pads; and eventually, veterinary care. Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025 Unlike the other contestants, she’s not dressed up in a tuxedo or sitting at a table to eat expensive-looking food — she’s being bottle-fed in her crib. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 June 2025 The remaining three went together to someone with experience bottle-feeding kittens. Ashley Vega, People.com, 26 May 2025 Plan to nurse or bottle-feed during take-off and landing to ease ear pain from the change in cabin pressure, and, if accessible, book the bassinet in advance. Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2025 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. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottle-feed
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  • Pediatricians widely recommend exclusively breastfeeding for the first six months of an infant’s life, but many parents can’t, for a range of medical, economic, and personal reasons—not least that feeding and pumping are incredibly time-consuming.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Extended Breastfeeding Is Still Taboo in America In American culture in particular there is much pressure to wean toddlers, who are considered too old to breastfeed, perhaps because there is still a misguided sexualization of breastfeeding parents in this country.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • Dogs and cats often will suckle on a toy, or even another animal, as a way to re-create those memories of comfort from nursing their mothers.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The best rooms look out over the sea and the rugged peaks of Cavall Bernat—a view shared by the rooftop restaurant, where local meats star in dishes like suckling porc negre and pastry stuffed with guinea fowl in almond sauce.
    Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Bottle-feed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottle-feed. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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