as in kids
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood playtime's over, it's time to gather up the whelps and head home
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Noun
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Yazbek is studying medicine and is living with her family among strangers in the refugee camp, trying to study on her iPad while kids play tag in the halls.—
Sean Nevin, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
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Instead, make plans for future vacations, fun outings and anything to do with playful activities with kids or sports.— Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict.— Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
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The house, previously a school, is holding 400 people, including 120 children.— Sean Nevin, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Bear cubs are usually born in January and February, leaving their dens with their mothers sometime in April for tree-climbing lessons.— Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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The cubs are not yet on public display.— Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The energy of the collision spawns many new particles, including—sometimes—W bosons.— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
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But reading the profile of Mohamad Eisa and Yolka Gessen left me with a kind of dread, the kind that comes when a spin-off from a hit show spawns a spin-off of its own, promising/threatening hundreds of new hours of content to keep up with.— Jessa Crispin, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026
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While Martin Scorsese called it one of the scariest movies of all time, The Uninvited kindles a wonderful romance between Rick and Stella.— Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
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The star of Big Little Lies confessed her new film, Caught Stealing, kindles a powerful yearning for some aspects of the era.— Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And rhetoric, it could be said, begets more rhetoric.— Robin Wright, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
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It was never supposed to be a character study about how trauma begets trauma.— Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
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“Whelps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/whelps. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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