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 Dory originally purchased Chase the Chaos for $10,000 as a weanling in 2019. Larry Stumes, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weanling
Noun
  • Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.
    Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That panel ultimately voted to end a decades-old federal recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine.
    Josh M. Shepherd, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • But pictures on social media of these newborns have been drawing the fans in recent months.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • These abuses include the murder of inmates’ infants, a fact that galvanizes the pregnant Alouette (the father of her child, Étienne, is a quarryman) into joining a plan for escape through the Paris sewers.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Forty were younger children, including nine infants.
    Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • That’s a communication disorder that develops when kids don’t have consistent access to a language — whether ASL or English — as babies and toddlers.
    Claire Rafford, IndyStar, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Johnece and Neal divorced back when Connor was a toddler.
    Stephanie Slifer, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Dashboard camera video showed Newton, who had been behind the truck, pulled up to the passenger side of the white van, occupied by Nelson, Fairchild, Thorns and two juveniles, and immediately opened fire.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Police said the juvenile on foot apologized for the vehicle being parked in the driveway before entering it and fleeing, followed by the second vehicle.
    Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • For the first time since the opening of the Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins habitat at La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium, a chick is being raised by its penguin parents.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The little marshmallow chicks managed to hold space for all three big flavors listed on the package.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The goal is to engage kids in learning about history and civic engagement while putting them on a path to potentially work in the music industry, said the department’s Chief Academic Officer Irene Parisi.
    Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Early life as a theater kid Van Der Beek, who was raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, started acting at 13 after suffering a concussion playing football that prevented him from playing for a year on doctor’s orders.
    Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Ward said that love of adrenaline was passed down to her, especially as a youngster.
    Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Christie was asked if the team’s front office influenced his decision to play the youngsters down the stretch.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 5 Feb. 2026

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“Weanling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weanling. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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