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 warmer climate may also be beneficial for baby whales—called neonates—with poor temperature regulation.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • During delivery, the newborn’s head became stuck in the vaginal canal in a complicated medical event known as shoulder dystocia, according to Taylor and Ross’ lawsuit against St. Julian and Southern Regional Medical Center.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 20 June 2025
  • But their most dangerous run-in occurs when Isla helps a pregnant infected give birth to a—surprise—non-infected baby girl and the newborn's father, an Alpha referred to as Samson (Chi Lewis-Parry), shows up to claim her.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • Play areas, sensory rooms, nursing and infant care accommodations were all added.
    Asli Pelit, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • Phthalates, forever chemicals, flame retardants, bisphenols, formaldehyde-releasing preservatives and certain pesticides are some of the culprits, but there are thousands in use that have never been carefully evaluated for their health effects, especially on infants and children.
    Will Stone, NPR, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Two toddlers sitting down at table eating watermelon.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • At Southeast Georgia Health System in Brunswick, Ga., doctors determined that the toddler — who was born with only one kidney — was falling into multiple organ failure with his heart, liver and kidney shutting down.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Lundes went from juvenile camp to juvenile camp and then to the California Youth Authority, the ineffective and poorly run state system that has since been shut down.
    Ivan Kashinsky, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2025
  • The budget contains five new projects, though: a sheriff’s station in Ramona, new electric vehicle charging stations for county vehicles, a 16-bed crisis center for youths, a facility for juveniles incarcerated for short periods of time and a training tower for county fire personnel.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
Noun
  • The amount of time that kids and their parents right beside them spend watching Cocomelon and the rest of our product is enormous.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 18 June 2025
  • The presence of a 37-year-old who brought the tenacity of a champion to the lineup and the joy of a kid to the dressing room.
    Chris Johnston, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Yet, the youngster is still in search of his first PGA Tour victory.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • The older elephants surround it, allowing the youngster to relax and play in the water while being protected from crocodiles lurking nearby.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Now, adolescents and adults who have not been previously vaccinated receive only one shot, and myocarditis no longer shows up in the data, O'Leary said, referring to the CDC's Vaccine Safety Datalink.
    Jackie Fortiér, NPR, 13 June 2025
  • The study also focused only on children and adolescents.
    Jackie Fortiér, CNN Money, 13 June 2025

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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