Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refeed
Verb
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The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.—
Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025 -
Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
18 Dec. 2024
Verb
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After using the summer to feed and fatten up in Alaska, the whales migrate to Mexico in the winter to breed and give birth.—
Adrian Rodriguez,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Her mother’s pullets were raised clean on a green yard, on a menu of crushed corn and wayward bugs, not manufactured in the crowd and reek of a modern-day factory farm, fattened on fish meal.—
Rick Bragg,
Southern Living,
3 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Billy and Michelle Mouw’s family farm has been hand-feeding their chickens and providing fresh eggs for 32 years.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2025
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Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.—
Harper's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Apr. 2024
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“Refeed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refeed. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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