Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calved
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Bowie recently sired a calf there, making Fort Worth Zoo elephant matriarch Rasha a great-grandmother.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025 -
The brother lions sired several cubs over their long reign at the zoo.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Still, the hearing last year that reduced his sentence kindled some optimism.—
Amy Yurkanin,
ProPublica,
9 Oct. 2025
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Hearing his wife recall painful memories due to the family feud kindled a recent memory for Todd, too — an angry one.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Sep. 2025
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Raskob was an auto executive who fathered 13 children and became a wildly ambitious entrepreneur.—
Evan Hughes,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has fathered 14 children in total.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
18 Sep. 2025
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These vortices are called flux ropes, and satellites had previously observed small flux ropes—but our work helped uncover how they are generated.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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Louisville Tourism estimates that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025.—
Kirby Adams,
Louisville Courier Journal,
23 Oct. 2025
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The Hermann Farm museum also includes a collection of historic buildings along with beautiful Shire horses—large, gentle animals bred, raised, and trained on the farm.—
Erika Ebsworth-Goold,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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Originally bred as a guide dog in the 1960s, the standard goldendoodle—a crossbreed of a golden retriever and poodle—weighs an average of 50 to 90 pounds.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Even after 30 years, during which The Golden Compass became a trilogy, His Dark Materials, which begat a second trilogy, The Book of Dust—collectively selling something like 50 million copies—Pullman’s books retain an idiosyncratic spikiness.—
Lev Grossman,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
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Metroid and Castlevania begot the Metroidvania; hell, today, practically every game of any high difficulty gets roped in with soulslikes (referencing Dark Souls).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Calved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calved. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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