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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucklings
Noun
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The virus primarily affects infants and young children, but there have also been outbreaks in elderly populations, such as nursing homes.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026 -
According to the report, rent, daycare for infants, and transportation are among the highest costs.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.—
Dr. Jade Cobern,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Regeneron also gained Food and Drug Administration approval on April 23 for its gene therapy, Otarmeni, which will be prescribed to treat a rare type of hearing loss that afflicts about 50 newborns in the United States each year.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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The team at Kittens In The Mitten immediately began working to stabilize the fragile newborn.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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Even toddlers can get in on the action, and this is one project where getting dirty is part of the fun.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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But at Disneyland on Friday, vacationers in matching T-shirts, toddlers in princess dresses and mouse-eared parents pushing strollers made their way through security checkpoints giving little attention to signs posted nearby notifying guests of the theme park’s new facial recognition policy.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Sucklings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucklings. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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