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
  • The center ensures proper nourishment for newborns in critical condition, including many born prematurely.
    Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • The new parents announced their son’s arrival a few days after his birth, sharing a joint Instagram post with a photo of the newborn sleeping next to a wooden sign.
    Jacqueline Weiss, People.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • By the time Arturo was a toddler and Iris an infant, the family had settled full time in Oxford.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • The goal is for the endowment to help pay the costs to create 16,000 spaces for preschool, infants, and toddlers by 2030.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • The former Migos rapper’s posts followed images of both young Wave, 3, and Diggs, 31, going viral, with fans of the Atlanta artist making note of the toddler and NFL baller’s similar hairstyles.
    Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 5 June 2025
  • An ambulance was called to the home, but the toddler died two days later, on Aug. 16, 2021, the London Evening Standard reported.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The Alamo, an underground nightclub in Summerville, was packed at around 3 a.m. when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stormed the building, recovering firearms, bulk cash, seven potential trafficking victims and a missing juvenile.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
  • One of the people who was hiding was a juvenile, who deputies say witnessed Waite fatally shoot a woman in the head in the kitchen, the station reported.
    Mitchell Willetts, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Well, all but Prince Harry, his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two kids.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 6 June 2025
  • Morrison is 32 now — older, wiser, a lot more worldly than the kid who got into trouble, ended up in court and left Old Trafford without fulfilling that rare potential.
    Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • The battery is mounted to the body and then twisted – one notch to engage a child lock and ensure your youngster doesn't accidentally engage the powerful cutting machine, and another twist to engage battery power.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 June 2025
  • The youngsters were all finding a way to play and stay ready by working together.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Her mother, now an author, was a Freudian therapist who worked with children and adolescents.
    Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 5 June 2025
  • Even more revealing, research shows that up to 22% of children and adolescents struggle with disordered eating.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 3 June 2025

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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