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to give milk to from the breast
the image of a mother suckling her babe is a standard artistic symbol of maternal love and nurturing
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Recent Examples of suckling
Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
The quiet, rhythmic suckling that babies do when feeding.
—Aisha Muharrar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
Those people under him are suckling on his piggly-wiggly titties.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
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Noun
As the deck crew struggles to keep their head above water, Josh spends two days on a cochinillo, a Spanish-style suckling pig.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
The quiet, rhythmic suckling that babies do when feeding.
—Aisha Muharrar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
The pups have the epicurean delight of suckling one of the highest fat-content milks in the animal kingdom.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
Those people under him are suckling on his piggly-wiggly titties.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suckling
Noun
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Kennedy’s argument in the hearing—and his book—is that improvements in nutrition, hygiene, and sanitation led to large declines in infant and child deaths during the 20th century—not vaccines.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
23 Apr. 2026
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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
Verb
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Meanwhile, outfielder Austin Hays, who also is nursing a hamstring injury, is ready for a rehab assignment starting Saturday at Triple-A Charlotte.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Luka Doncic, nursing a left hamstring injury, even took off his white jacket during the dramatic overtime.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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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
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The team at Kittens In The Mitten immediately began working to stabilize the fragile newborn.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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The connection between the films goes far beyond the presence of a foundling.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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When Heathcliff, a foundling, discovers that Cathy Earnshaw, the daughter of the impoverished Yorkshire lord who’s taken him in, has played a prank on him by putting eggs in his beds to be crushed, the boy plunges his fingers into the slippery puddle of yolk and albumen left behind.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
9 Feb. 2026
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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
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Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.—
Jen Reeder,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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The Orient Express Apartment has a monumental sculpted fireplace, wood marquetry floors, and 18th-century mirrors, while the Cherubini Suite is crowned by a 1958 chandelier by Carlo Scarpa and frescoes depicting cherubs.—
Laura Itzkowitz,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Apr. 2026
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The hat is the brainchild of Dali; Jean Schlumberger creates cherub pins that will be immortalized in a Picasso portrait.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Suckling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suckling. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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