pup
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Menlo Park firefighters said they got a call over the weekend from a worried resident who saw a pup swimming out into the bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
When Diana Tupiza and Andres Alquinga decided to get married, they selected a rather unusual witness for the civil wedding ceremony: Luna, their Pekingese pup who stamped her paw print on the marriage certificate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
But what if that pup was chasing after a Minion holding sausages?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Even if you stay two nights in hotels, the cost of driving with your pup will be lower.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Here I was laid up with a bad hog cut, hurting so bad I could hardly get my breath, and her expecting me to make a big to-do over a little old puny speckled pup.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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When temperatures rise, the females abandon their pups to hunt for food, he explained.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The force hopes the pups will one day emulate England's players by becoming stars in their own right, with tackling - of suspects, that is - listed among their duties.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
We counted nine capybaras: an adult male, four adult females, and four medium-sized pups.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
The announcement resembled Colossal’s rollout of the “dire wolf” pups: Publications that had received guided tours of its lab produced breathless articles taking Colossal’s claims at face value, generally lacking skeptical commentary by unaffiliated biologists.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
“I have never seen pups in a white shark’s uterus before,” Robin told us.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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"The dog has pupped," said the little old woman; and she shook her man.
From The Path of Life by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
But they've beat me plumb out—same as if I was some sucker who ain't never roped an' branded a three-year-old steer since I was pupped.
From The Forfeit by Cullum, Ridgwell
He rested again; then he continued: "That—that there dog was pupped on the track," he said, with a sad sort of a smile.
From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry
A thought struck me: one of the many curs, which range wild throughout Tehran, had just pupped under a ruined archway, close to our house.
From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by Morier, James
I tell you and your friends that it was not wolves that were pupped in the sand of the shaggy Prussian forests when the first Hohenzollern was dropped.
From The Crimson Tide A Novel by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The sea lion breeding and pupping season is fast approaching at main rookeries such as the Channel Islands, according to Giancarlo Rulli, associate director of public relations for the Marine Mammal Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
"Although all of the cownose rays in Bermuda to date are females, we also observed small, immature rays suggesting pupping may have recently occurred here," said Ajemian.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
In its absence, harp seals swim farther and seek ice outside their traditional pupping grounds.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 made it safe for the seals to return from Canadian waters, but they didn’t establish pupping colonies until the early 1990s.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 2, 2023
Poetical as the dog is at all times, I know of no circumstance that develops more pathetically the disposition of the creature than that of pupping.
From The Dog by Dinks