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
  • Also, newborns rely on maternal antibodies from the vaccine to protect them.
    Judy Stone, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • Signs of a successful feeding routine include: Your newborn is nursing often.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Advertisement Supporters frame baby drop boxes as a beautiful solution for all parties involved—relinquishing parents, infants anonymously surrendered, and families who eventually adopt them.
    Time, Time, 28 May 2025
  • Nursery night-lights work well for children who are afraid of the dark and people who need to get up in the middle of the night with their tired infant.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • As the antivenom began its work, Reed was airlifted to Phoenix Children's Hospital, where her medical team focused on correcting the toddler's plummeting oxygen levels due to the venom, The Arizona Republic reported.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • In January, a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following a knife attack in the German city of Aschaffenburg in which two people were killed, including a toddler.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • There is now a strict curfew in place to deal with the juveniles who have increasingly become more and more emboldened as a result of our weak Attorney General.
    Pilar Arias , Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
  • Officers also arrested one juvenile for obstruction, who was released from the precinct.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Director Robert Zemeckis finds mixed results marrying broad comedy and pop-culture references with the title wooden boy's adventurous quest to become a real kid.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • European Sperm Bank — which recruits sperm donors in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, according to its website — said that more than 67 kids were conceived using the donor’s sperm, and that all relevant fertility clinics were alerted to the situation.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • The couple usually hide the youngsters' faces in online photos but in these their features were visible.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
  • The rest of the cast is predominantly made up of youngsters with different types of disability.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • And advertising for e-cigarettes has been heavily aimed at adolescents, according to a recent article in Missouri Medicine, The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association.
    Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2025
  • Passive use of social media — scrolling — has been shown to be associated with anxiety and depression in adolescents, says Jacqueline Sperling, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and co-program director of the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program at McLean Hospital.
    Eliza Brooke, Vox, 23 May 2025

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

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