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Recent Examples of hand-feed
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.
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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
Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
But when hand-fed something yummy, the rats still liked it.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
Guests can snorkel the artificial Grand Reef teeming with fish and graceful rays, spend hours floating the lazy river that winds under waterfalls, and hand-feed birds in the aviary.
—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
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
Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
But when hand-fed something yummy, the rats still liked it.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
Guests can snorkel the artificial Grand Reef teeming with fish and graceful rays, spend hours floating the lazy river that winds under waterfalls, and hand-feed birds in the aviary.
—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-feed
Verb
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College coaches line up their offenses on the ball and spoon-feed plays from the sideline.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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As a result, the stubborn pup demands to be spoon-fed.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 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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After using the summer to feed and fatten up in Alaska, the whales migrate to Mexico in the winter to breed and give birth.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Her mother’s pullets were raised clean on a green yard, on a menu of crushed corn and wayward bugs, not manufactured in the crowd and reek of a modern-day factory farm, fattened on fish meal.—
Rick Bragg,
Southern Living,
3 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Instead, Misty leads a crew to force-feed him through a tube.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Attempts to force-feed Jokic resulted in bad-pass turnovers.—
Bennett Durando,
The Denver Post,
25 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Wolves have filled humans with wonder throughout our history, and they have been featured in art and mythology for thousands of years.—
Olivia Ferrari,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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The seaside streets are filled with great shopping, dining, and architecture just waiting to be discovered.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Hand-feed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hand-feed. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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