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Recent Examples of weanling
White sharks gather near rookeries for a buffet as weanlings begin heading out to sea.
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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
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
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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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Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.—
Jen Reeder,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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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The campaign focuses on supporting NICU infants with products designed alongside nurses and doctors to meet their specific needs.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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The Safe Havens Act, which was enacted 25 years ago, allows a parent to give up their infant to hospital emergency room staff anonymously and without the threat of prosecution.—
Mikayla Bunnell,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The mother then lifted the toddler out of the water while the otter continued attacking and bit her arm.—
Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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An East Oak Cliff neighborhood is grieving tonight after a heartbreaking tragedy involving a toddler.—
Marissa Armas,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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No further information will be released, the department said, because the individual is a juvenile.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, the researchers found that this wear was present only in adult specimens, was completely absent in juveniles, and was missing from the jaws of squids.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
24 Apr. 2026
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Italy will ban the killing of male chicks starting in 2027, ending the deaths of 34 million birds every year.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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The hook had likely been embedded in a fish caught from nearby waters, and when the adult eagle delivered the meal, the chick swallowed the hidden hardware along with it.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Apr. 2026
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Charles, who is well-known for his love of nature and the importance of sustainability, fed chickens in a coop together with the kids.—
Emma Caughlan,
NBC news,
30 Apr. 2026
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The kid from Istanbul’s streets was not an aberration.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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Coe, born in Akron, Ohio, spent time in reformatories as a youngster, and served time in an Ohio prison from 1963 to 1967 for possession of burglary tools.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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With those two moving on up this week, the Daily News checked in on a few other youngsters in the Yankees’ org, starting with Carlos Lagrange.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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