nurslings

Definition of nurslingsnext
plural of nursling
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Noun
  • The virus primarily affects infants and young children, but there have also been outbreaks in elderly populations, such as nursing homes.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • According to the report, rent, daycare for infants, and transportation are among the highest costs.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Regeneron also gained Food and Drug Administration approval on April 23 for its gene therapy, Otarmeni, which will be prescribed to treat a rare type of hearing loss that afflicts about 50 newborns in the United States each year.
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The team at Kittens In The Mitten immediately began working to stabilize the fragile newborn.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Nataliia had gone to the bus station, where soldiers were spraying foam to contain the nuclear fallout, and to the hospital, where men in white coats were unloading victims on stretchers from the backs of ambulances.
    Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
    City News Service, Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The hospital shuttered its emergency department on Wednesday, and then worked to transfer its inpatients to other hospitals by the end of the day Friday.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In that time, the number of people admitted to hospitals in the state as inpatients due to heat increased 60%, from 990 to 1,578.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But those efforts might be better spent on easing caregivers’ administrative burdens than replacing their face time with patients.
    Catherine Thorbecke, Twin Cities, 25 Apr. 2026
  • However, that bill did not address situations in which patients are already in immigration custody.
    Claudia Boyd Barrett, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The California Department of Public Health recommends that everyone ages 6 months and up should have access to the vaccine, and that those at higher risk of severe illness should get immunized — including older adults, pregnant women and infants and toddlers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
  • All ages are welcome, from toddlers to grandparents, according to the zoo.
    Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For studies measuring neonates’ looking time at faces, this included 667 infants, half of them boys and half of them girls.
    Lise Eliot, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.
    Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yazbek is studying medicine and is living with her family among strangers in the refugee camp, trying to study on her iPad while kids play tag in the halls.
    Sean Nevin, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Instead, make plans for future vacations, fun outings and anything to do with playful activities with kids or sports.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Nurslings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nurslings. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.

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