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to give milk to from the breast
the image of a mother suckling her babe is a standard artistic symbol of maternal love and nurturing
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Recent Examples of suckling
Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
22 Dec. 2025
As the deck crew struggles to keep their head above water, Josh spends two days on a cochinillo, a Spanish-style suckling pig.
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Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
24 Nov. 2025
Those people under him are suckling on his piggly-wiggly titties.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Nov. 2025
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Noun
In Spain, the family of King Felipe and Queen Letizia are thought to indulge in a spread including cochinillo (roasted suckling pig), roast lamb, seafood and turrón, a traditional Spanish nougat confection which includes almonds, egg whites, honey and sugar.
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Hadley Hall Meares,
Vanity Fair,
22 Dec. 2025
As the deck crew struggles to keep their head above water, Josh spends two days on a cochinillo, a Spanish-style suckling pig.
—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
Verb
The pups have the epicurean delight of suckling one of the highest fat-content milks in the animal kingdom.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
24 Nov. 2025
Those people under him are suckling on his piggly-wiggly titties.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suckling
Noun
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For example, in 2011, the FDA warned parents, caregivers, and healthcare providers not to feed SimplyThick, a thickening gel, to premature infants fitting a particular profile.
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The median cost for full-time care for an infant in Los Angeles County was $1,209 a month at a family child-care home and $1,818 a month at a center in 2024, according to data from the California Budget & Policy Center.
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The Americans, playing in front of a frenzied crowed on home soil in the San Francisco Bay Area, were down a man and nursing a 1-0 lead.
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Rescuers named him Irving and have been nursing him back to health ever since.
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After Micah’s birth, Lauryn posted a statement on X clarifying that Rohan was not her newborn's father.
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About half of the newborns in the program received a $1,000 grant deposited in an Oklahoma 529 college savings account.
Noun
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The connection between the films goes far beyond the presence of a foundling.
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When Heathcliff, a foundling, discovers that Cathy Earnshaw, the daughter of the impoverished Yorkshire lord who’s taken him in, has played a prank on him by putting eggs in his beds to be crushed, the boy plunges his fingers into the slippery puddle of yolk and albumen left behind.
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Males guard the eggs and newborn frogs, called neonates.
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There have been publications about nicotine transmission and neonates after blood transfusion.
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In Wood’s ritzy dressing room worthy of Elizabeth Taylor, a cherub hangs overhead, while a leap of ceramic leopards prowls the lounge.
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With its polished English oak paneling and ornate Louis XIV-style wrought-iron balustrades presided over by a torch-wielding bronze cherub, the opulent atrium is remembered by historians as both the main thoroughfare and architectural crown jewel of the legendary liner.
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“Suckling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suckling. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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