Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whelped
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Both calves were sired by Bernard, who is now dad to 17 rhinos.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026 -
Morobe sired two daughters as part of a breeding program.—
Jack Perry,
The Providence Journal,
18 Feb. 2026
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America's hopes for its first high-speed rail were kindled in 2008, when California voters approved a ballot measure for a train connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than three hours.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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This spectacular success kindled a desire in Hersheypark officials to invest heavily in thrill rides.—
John Haddad,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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When Curt Cignetti was hired just more than two years ago, it was considered a smart move by the athletic department, but no one kidded themselves that Indiana was some sort of raucous fan sleeper cell just waiting to be activated.—
Will Leitch,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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Jeffs was eventually arrested in 2006 and five years later, he was charged with child rape against a 12-year-old and a 15-year-old, with whom he was accused of having fathered a child.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
11 Apr. 2026
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The youngest is a baby and is my first grandchild fathered by my son.—
Jeanne Phillips,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
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His contention is that the people who inhabit the paintings are breathing a specific spiritual atmosphere, bred by the company that Vermeer kept.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Their Tibetan ancestry dates back thousands of years to when they were bred as an interior sentinel in the Buddhist monasteries.—
Katelyn Chef,
Martha Stewart,
12 Apr. 2026
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The book was completed months before Anthropic’s redlines generated new interest in autonomous-drone swarms and killer robots, but even then the writing was on the wall.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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The splitter, which generated a 50 percent whiff rate Tuesday, is practically unsolvable.—
Katie Woo,
New York Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Whelped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whelped. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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