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suckling

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verb

present participle of suckle
as in nursing
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
Noun
Prices: Dinner appetizers $18 to $32, main courses $28 to $78, large-format dishes $170 to $600 (for whole suckling pig). Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 11 July 2024 On the menu are ham croquettes, Segovian-style suckling-pig empanadas, seafood fritters, octopus and filet mignon. Darla Guillen Gilthorpe, Houston Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2020 Dishes like fatty ox tartare topped with white truffle shavings and wisps of blue cheese, slow-roasted suckling pig dotted with creme fraiche, and aromatic black rice infused with squid brought the bold flavors of Spain into sharp focus. Amy Tara Koch, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019 Case in point: soppable escabeche like abuela used to make, and a peerless rendition of Castilian roast suckling pig that defies physics with its weightless, so-crisp-it-shatters skin. Benjamin Kemper, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2020 See All Example Sentences for suckling
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suckling
Noun
  • 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
  • But a 2017 study found that even infants can distinguish between words in different languages.
    Leslie Garisto Pfaff, Parents, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Whale shark neonates, like other shark species, do not receive any parental care after birth.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • All that’s missing is cherub wings.
    Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Suckling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suckling. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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