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
  • To understand where these births might be happening, researchers examined whether neonate sightings were associated with specific environmental conditions.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Parents could no longer reliably count on herd immunity to keep newborns too young to vaccinate safe from the disease.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • An officer then went into a bedroom and found a teen holding the newborn wrapped in a towel, KOLN reported.
    Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Within a week, a woman living on E. 130th St. reported hearing an infant wailing in an apartment occupied by a young widow, Carmela Marzano.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 3 May 2025
  • Trinity County authorities continued search and rescue operations Friday for the body of an infant who was swept away from his father’s arms after their four-door sedan veered off the highway and into the Trinity River.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Changing buying habits Aeri Schwartz, a mother who comes to the store with her toddler once every few months, looked at a toy fire truck that cost $20.
    Natasha Chen, CNN Money, 11 May 2025
  • Half of all counties in Oregon, for example, qualify as child-care deserts for preschoolers, and thirty-five out of thirty-six counties in the state are child-care deserts for infants and toddlers, according to research out of Oregon State University.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • In a 5-0 decision, Justice Derek Molter wrote that the court allowed Kelly to amend an appeal, partly because the scientific understanding of how a juvenile’s brain works has since changed.
    Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2025
  • His other arrests include menacing and marijuana possession in 2009, grand larceny in 2008 and a 2005 bust for assault as a juvenile.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • For Stowell, his wife and three kids, including his son who was younger than 10, entrance to Hollywood Studios cost $974.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 14 May 2025
  • The clinics will also include financial education resources for kids and families that will be delivered through the lens of basketball.
    Caroline Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The youngster brushed off San Siro heartbreak suffered midweek against Inter Milan in the Champions League semifinals, and was in top form against Carlo Ancelotti’s men for a tie that could essentially scoop La Liga this term.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Denise Alexander, who performed in thousands of radio episodes and on The Twilight Zone as a youngster before starring in two long stints as Dr. Lesley Webber on General Hospital, has died.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • First, governments could consider warning labels for ultra-processed and red meat products and restrict marketing junk food to children and adolescents.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
  • The collectives are able to pull adolescents into their orbit by first establishing contact on public platforms, according to an April report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada’s national police force.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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