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
  • Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 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
  • The final conversation of the episode really brings us full circle when Nia gets home from a long day in the car with a newborn who won’t nurse.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Last year, even though the nation's population as a whole is larger, there were only 3,606,400 newborns.
    Brian Mann, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Abbott Laboratories must pay $53 million in compensatory damages in four cases in which Chicago-area babies developed a dangerous intestinal disease after consuming the company’s formula for premature infants, a Cook County jury decided Thursday evening.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • So far, Hochul, who is up for reelection this fall, has declined to raise taxes on the wealthy, to set up the type of revenue raiser that could be needed, if not to keep the program going, then to expand it to infants as young as six weeks old, as Mamdani promised as a candidate.
    Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • When her mother was charged with making false statements and they were separated, the toddler was sent to the custody of the ORR, which cares for immigrant children in shelter or foster settings.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • If her toddlers are in her videos, they’re filmed from the back or side.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the indictment, four others, including two unnamed juveniles, are also listed in connection to Chyna’s case.
    Veronica Fulton, NBC news, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The juveniles — around 5 and 6 feet long — like the sandy shallow waters that keep them safe from predators, and the plentiful food of stingrays and small sharks that live near shore, Lowe noted.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Due to melting ice, mass drownings of emperor penguin chicks have occurred at multiple breeding sites, and entire colonies have fallen into the ocean.
    Joyann Jeffrey, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The eagles welcomed three chicks that hatched within the last month.
    Finch Walker, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Choose from a big assortment of polish, gift sets, treatments and polish for kids.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The first generation of parents to have resorted, at least occasionally, to mollifying their children by putting digital screens in their hands has now seen those kids grow up.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The organisation aims to design bespoke digital badge qualifications in conjunction with a range of private companies that will offer the 99 per cent of youngsters released from British academies alternative employment pathways.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The youngsters took the train south to the deep, impoverished heart of China.
    Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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