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Recent Examples of hand-feed
As outlined in the Shark Reef Marine Reserve fact sheet, during dive experiences here, visitors can crouch behind a small wall while sharks are hand-fed or given tuna heads dropped from a plastic bin.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025
There are unique adventures that include painting alongside a sea lion, swimming with dolphins, and hand-feeding giant tarpon.
—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
The Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered the technique over 40 years ago, using a similar mechanism to hand-feed Andean condor chicks in 1981.
—Moná Thomas, People.com, 1 May 2025
The puppies went to one foster home, where they were hand-fed every few hours.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Timothy Treadwell, an amateur environmentalist, spent 13 summers filming himself among Alaskan grizzly bears, naming them, petting them, sometimes hand-feeding them, until one of them killed him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in 2003.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025
Billy and Michelle Mouw’s family farm has been hand-feeding their chickens and providing fresh eggs for 32 years.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.
—Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
But the people who did the actual hands-on work of incubating the eggs and hand-feeding the chicks around the clock were a dedicated team of aviculturists and bird keepers.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025
There are unique adventures that include painting alongside a sea lion, swimming with dolphins, and hand-feeding giant tarpon.
—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
The Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered the technique over 40 years ago, using a similar mechanism to hand-feed Andean condor chicks in 1981.
—Moná Thomas, People.com, 1 May 2025
The puppies went to one foster home, where they were hand-fed every few hours.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
Timothy Treadwell, an amateur environmentalist, spent 13 summers filming himself among Alaskan grizzly bears, naming them, petting them, sometimes hand-feeding them, until one of them killed him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in 2003.
—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025
Billy and Michelle Mouw’s family farm has been hand-feeding their chickens and providing fresh eggs for 32 years.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025
Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.
—Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
But the people who did the actual hands-on work of incubating the eggs and hand-feeding the chicks around the clock were a dedicated team of aviculturists and bird keepers.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-feed
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The savvy celebrity on the business end of the jockeying just spoon-feeds you their evolution.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
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The season has traded both subtlety and ambiguity for clear explanations spelled out and spoon-fed.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
Verb
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The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.—
Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Pliny the Elder described how snails were raised in ponds and given wine to fatten them up.—
Garritt C. Van Dyk,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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Record high after record high on Wall Street Across the Biden era, US stocks posted strong gains, fattening retirement accounts and providing hefty returns for investors.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Take, for example, the first victim portrays gluttony: a man with obesity is force-fed literally to death via hemorrhage.—
Derek Scancarelli,
EW.com,
27 June 2025
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Public pressure mounted, including from the United Nations, and a court order required authorities to stop force-feeding the group.—
Jimmy Jenkins,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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This winter, a Roman grave filled with gypsum was found during a highway construction project in England.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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The Dukes of Hazzard ran for seven seasons on CBS, wrapping up in 1985 after 147 episodes filled with moonshine mischief and good-old-boy adventures.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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“Hand-feed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-feed. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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