weanling

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Recent Examples of weanling White sharks gather near rookeries for a buffet as weanlings begin heading out to sea. Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025 The striped dolphin was a female weanling (newly independent from its mother) that stranded freshly deceased on Hampton Beach. Breanne Kovatch, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023 Hungry weanlings trailing after their full-figured mothers. Joe Drape, New York Times, 4 May 2023 Dory originally purchased Chase the Chaos for $10,000 as a weanling in 2019. Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2023 Along with his final price as a 2-year-old, Morello was auctioned twice previously – for $140,000 as a weanling at the 2019 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and for $200,000 as a yearling at the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling Sale in Kentucky. Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 18 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weanling
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
  • Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Each newborn weighed between 2 and 3 lbs.
    Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Then the mama cat gets up and steps away from her newborns for a moment.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The campaign focuses on supporting NICU infants with products designed alongside nurses and doctors to meet their specific needs.
    Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Safe Havens Act, which was enacted 25 years ago, allows a parent to give up their infant to hospital emergency room staff anonymously and without the threat of prosecution.
    Mikayla Bunnell, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The mother then lifted the toddler out of the water while the otter continued attacking and bit her arm.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • An East Oak Cliff neighborhood is grieving tonight after a heartbreaking tragedy involving a toddler.
    Marissa Armas, CBS News, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Certainly, there’s anecdotal evidence where upward of 200 juveniles will gather at a mall.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
  • The court system has thus far treated Young as a juvenile.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Italy will ban the killing of male chicks starting in 2027, ending the deaths of 34 million birds every year.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The hook had likely been embedded in a fish caught from nearby waters, and when the adult eagle delivered the meal, the chick swallowed the hidden hardware along with it.
    Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Charles, who is well-known for his love of nature and the importance of sustainability, fed chickens in a coop together with the kids.
    Emma Caughlan, NBC news, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The kid from Istanbul’s streets was not an aberration.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Coe, born in Akron, Ohio, spent time in reformatories as a youngster, and served time in an Ohio prison from 1963 to 1967 for possession of burglary tools.
    CBS News, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • With those two moving on up this week, the Daily News checked in on a few other youngsters in the Yankees’ org, starting with Carlos Lagrange.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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