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 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 Dory originally purchased Chase the Chaos for $10,000 as a weanling in 2019. Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2023 The 10 American Pharoah weanlings sold last November brought an average price of $445,000. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018 Fueled in part by the fascination with American Pharoah’s offspring, the average price for the 10,343 weanlings, yearlings and 2-year-olds in training sold at auction last year jumped by more than 14 percent from 2016, to $72,823. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 6 June 2018 These weanling seals are fully recovered and ready to return to the wild! Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weanling
Noun
  • The scientists also found several neonates and newborns in the area, Pardo-Pérez tells Flora Lichtman of Science Friday, which suggests that the site served as a nursery for the prehistoric animals.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2025
  • The warmer climate may also be beneficial for baby whales—called neonates—with poor temperature regulation.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • So, the $1,000 grant is really just a redistribution from taxpayers and lenders to newborns, which is neutral in terms of efficiency.
    James Broughel, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • For parents already stretched thin, especially in households with newborns, this device can take on a sizable mental and physical load.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • This program sequenced the genomes of 100,000 infants to screen for over 200 rare, treatable genetic conditions.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • Photo collages in the waiting room show hundreds of patients, from infants to young adults.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her.
    Sacha Pfeiffer, NPR, 22 July 2025
  • Some of the parents who say their toddlers were abused by employees at Parker-Chase Preschool in Roswell, about an hour north of Atlanta, were in the courtroom Monday waiting to voice their opposition to the pretrial diversion deals when Carnesale recused herself instead.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Succi said first responders found that the driver of the vehicle and a juvenile in the backseat were trapped inside and needed to be extricated by fire crews.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2025
  • At least 41 of those cranes were reported to be juveniles, fresh new recruits from the breeding grounds in and around Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • This is especially good for those staple items kids are always using – notebooks, binders, folders, colored pencils, pens and more.
    Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
  • The podcast tells a great story that will engage all ages—but especially kids interested in outer space (and what kid isn’t?).
    Toni Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • But Menéndez is concerned that more could have been done, especially with the children’s camps on the river where youngsters slept in cabins with counselors.
    Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 23 July 2025
  • White said youngsters returning early after school pay $221 while those coming after the last bell are charged $210.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • The World Health Organization says that 81 percent of adolescents worldwide do not get enough physical activity, noting that rates of sedentary behavior in young people tend to rise as their country develops economically.
    Henry Abbott, The Atlantic, 12 July 2025
  • Another study said that the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate for adolescents and young adults increased to 66.3 percent between 2016 and 2022 — a number that jumped by 17 percent per month in 2020 alone.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2025

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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