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Recent Examples of calve
Hektoria continues to calve giant icebergs into the sea, according to the paper.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2025
After losing a calf to a black vulture a decade ago, Tom Karr, who raises cattle near Pomeroy, Ohio, tried to move his fall calving season later in the year in hopes the vultures would be gone by then.
—Joshua A. Bickel, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
This is especially true during the early months of the year (high season), when humpback whales are calving off the coast.
—Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
Of the nearly 90 million, there were 37.2 million cows and heifers that calved, or gave birth, so far this year.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 23 July 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2025
After losing a calf to a black vulture a decade ago, Tom Karr, who raises cattle near Pomeroy, Ohio, tried to move his fall calving season later in the year in hopes the vultures would be gone by then.
—Joshua A. Bickel, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2025
This is especially true during the early months of the year (high season), when humpback whales are calving off the coast.
—Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
Of the nearly 90 million, there were 37.2 million cows and heifers that calved, or gave birth, so far this year.
—Filip Timotija, The Hill, 23 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calve
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Both calves were sired by Bernard, who is now dad to 17 rhinos.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Morobe sired two daughters as part of a breeding program.—
Jack Perry,
The Providence Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
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And rhetoric, it could be said, begets more rhetoric.—
Robin Wright,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Electric vehicles began growing in popularity a few years ago thanks to sustained investment and policies that begot social and cultural buy-in.—
Andrew Zaleski,
The Atlantic,
30 Mar. 2026
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Among female sea otters, motherhood is particularly taxing, as energy requirements double during pregnancy, lactation, and pup care.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Big Lake Humane Society pup Shishi also will compete for Team Ruff, while Mia Muffin is on Team Fluff.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Owners can help the process by giving them a whelping box.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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The alpha male was a foster, and his mate whelped — or gave birth — during the same week, making the pack an ideal candidate to receive pups.—
Hayleigh Evans,
The Arizona Republic,
29 July 2024
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Some early testers have used Skills to quickly enter prompts to calculate protein macros in a recipe, generate side-by-side comparisons across multiple tabs while shopping, and summarize lengthy documents, Google adds.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
15 Apr. 2026
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The book was completed months before Anthropic’s redlines generated new interest in autonomous-drone swarms and killer robots, but even then the writing was on the wall.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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The interviewer said that Phillips, 65, was not kidding.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
14 Apr. 2026
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Anyone who doesn’t believe Lamar Jackson bears the pressure to fulfill his greatness with a Super Bowl ring is kidding themselves, NFL history and plain logic.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
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America's hopes for its first high-speed rail were kindled in 2008, when California voters approved a ballot measure for a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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This spectacular success kindled a desire in Hersheypark officials to invest heavily in thrill rides.—
John Haddad,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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Jeffs was eventually arrested in 2006 and five years later, he was charged with child rape against a 12-year-old and a 15-year-old, with whom he was accused of having fathered a child.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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The ship’s log was kept by a young officer named Nathaniel Hathorne—who would later father that other, more famous Nathaniel Hawthorne (the author added the w).—
Michele MetychAll,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Calve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calve. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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