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cub

[kuhb] / kʌb /
NOUN
young
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Abandoned by his mother, mountain lion cub Crimson was rescued earlier this year by wildlife officials and transferred to the Los Angeles Zoo with hopes for his full recovery.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

A contractor in Steamboat Springs, Colo., opened his truck door in June to find a bear cub devouring his lunch.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

But cold-calling the president of the United States — on his personal cellphone — made me feel like a cub reporter all over again.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2026

A spokesperson told the BBC the cub "died of natural causes" but the remaining three are "doing exceptionally well and growing in confidence and character every day".

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

Shivering with eagerness, the cub wagged his tail and yipped a noisy welcome.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Blondie’s two cubs, believed to be 2 to 3 months old, will spend the rest of their childhood in captivity in the hopes that they can one day be released back into the wild.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

“Over many, many years, they started bringing their cubs into the yard, and then they started nursing in front of us,” said Joanne Edney-Coray, who with her husband runs the popular Silver Salmon Creek Lodge.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

But the first weeks of a red panda’s life are fragile, with a mortality rate of roughly 40% for cubs under 1 year of age.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 8, 2026

Yet the old lions refuse to surrender to the cubs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Mother Bear lay flat on the ground while her cubs boosted Roz onto her back.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

He set type and cubbed in the summers on nearby weeklies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was sired among the surges; I was cubbed beside the foam; All my heart is in its verges, And the sea wind is my home.

From Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea by Bliss Carman

“Because we don’t have sight inside her cubbing box we can’t be sure if Victoria has had more than one cub but we can confirm the birth,” she added.

From Reuters Jan. 3, 2018

On Thursday, Tian Tian dragged more logs into the cubbing box.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2015

Last Tuesday afternoon, Maclean noticed damp patches appearing on Tian Tian’s cubbing box.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2015

She began to spend more time in and around her cubbing box, a basket that her keepers had placed in her den and modified this year to include a heating element.

From The Guardian Aug. 25, 2015

This was not cubbing, and no one knew it better than Nora; but the sight of Carnage among the prophets—Carnage, whose noblest quarry hitherto had been the Mount Purcell turkey-cock—overthrew her scruples.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville




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