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
  • In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stopped recommending that all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine, which has been highly effective at fighting a virus that can lead to lifelong infections and liver cancer.
    Duaa Eldeib, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • Normal sources of nutrition for newborns, including breast milk, do not contain enough vitamin K to make up for this deficiency in the early months of life.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • What’s required of us, if we’re charged with that infant’s care?
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • The infants had slipped through a gap between the mattress and a side rail.
    Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Matt Olson, though barely a toddler when Cox guided the Braves to the city’s first major pro sports title, always connected Atlanta baseball with the iconic manager.
    Jesús Cano, New York Times, 10 May 2026
  • Thawing ice along a riverbank, the shallows capturing the reflection of one of the grandchildren; the burning flame of a wick disappearing into a birthday cake; the deep, dark tunnel of a fleeting set of train tracks, as piercing as the endless blue eyes of the toddler in the diptych beside it.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • The investigation remains ongoing to determine whether additional criminal offenses occurred during the time the juvenile was missing.
    Aaron A. Bedoya, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Six of the victims are juveniles, some as young as 15, Younger said.
    Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Moving nests is risky and could cause the parents to abandon the eggs or chicks.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
  • For the first time in more than a century, a bald eagle chick has successfully hatched within Chicago city limits, marking what the Chicago Park District called a historic milestone for the city’s wildlife restoration efforts.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • Take the case of Luca Reggiani, a kid from Modena, developed by Sassuolo, poached by Borussia Dortmund.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • Vrabel also has two kids with his wife of 27 years.
    Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Calaveras County youngster Donovan Hamanaka, wore a wig and bushy mustache to play Twain for the day.
    Andrew Graham May 6, Sacbee.com, 6 May 2026
  • Still, these two youngsters don’t shy away from it, whether the topic is past and present occupants of the White House or issues like immigration.
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026

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

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