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as in suckling
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as in convalescent
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nursling
Noun
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All that gnashing and suckling is old hat — as old as the burgundy fedora Jordan slips on when playing the more jovial of these brothers in arms.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025 -
Another highlight is the Domingos de Rancho farm-to-table dinner with options of roasted suckling goat, organic chicken and pork.—
Kaila Yu,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Olivia was the most popular girls name for the second year in a row, assigned to 231 infants.—
Mary Carole McCauley,
Baltimore Sun,
15 May 2025
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But a 2017 study found that even infants can distinguish between words in different languages.—
Leslie Garisto Pfaff,
Parents,
15 May 2025
Noun
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The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
16 May 2025
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In the next few weeks, zoo-goers can see the newborn in the Asian Plains habitat, zookeepers said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Art cycles in and out of fashion, and nothing could have been less suited to twentieth-century taste than Boucher’s chocolate-box cherubs.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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All that’s missing is cherub wings.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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There were grim meetings with every male foundling who landed on the streets or showed up at city hospitals.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2025
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But Mufasa's welcome is no kinder than the reception Dickens doled out to the foundlings scattered throughout his novels.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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To understand where these births might be happening, researchers examined whether neonate sightings were associated with specific environmental conditions.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Most sightings of whale shark neonates come from accidental encounters — fisheries bycatch, strandings, or occasional lucky observations by divers or fishers.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Changing buying habits Aeri Schwartz, a mother who comes to the store with her toddler once every few months, looked at a toy fire truck that cost $20.—
Natasha Chen,
CNN Money,
11 May 2025
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Half of all counties in Oregon, for example, qualify as child-care deserts for preschoolers, and thirty-five out of thirty-six counties in the state are child-care deserts for infants and toddlers, according to research out of Oregon State University.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025
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“Nursling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nursling. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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