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wean

[ween] / win /
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detach
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The plan also seeks to wean Turkey off its heavy dependence on energy imports.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Bass talked about her efforts to wean L.A. city completely off of coal-generated power, which it achieved in December 2025, and turning the switch on for one of the largest solar projects in the nation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

"People assume that it will always be readily available. And we need to wean ourselves off that kind of idea that water will always be there."

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

A major risk for the four leading hyperscalers is that competing labs will develop their own computing infrastructure and wean themselves off existing clouds, he said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

They are trying to slowly wean me off the stuff.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

As Europe weans itself off Russian energy, Washington is fast emerging as its largest gas supplier, with experts suggesting Croatia's Adriatic gas terminal offers a pathway deeper into the continent.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Jen's job was set up to help what young people themselves call the "Covid weans" - youngsters who started the pandemic as children and emerged as teenagers.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022

Over the next several decades, however, the energy pull on the grid will increase significantly, as will demand from other electric sources as the country weans itself off of fossil fuels.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2022

Mr. Tshisekedi has said that too much of the profits from the nation’s metals and minerals — increasingly in demand as the world weans itself from fossil fuels — fail to benefit the Congolese.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

The Lady said she’d raised six weans of her own and five o’ them lads, eight o’ someone else’s lads wouldn’t be much different.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Born into a nominally liberated time for women, our Gen X girlhood was a specific kind of confusing: Yes, we were weaned on “Free to Be You and Me.”

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

"I think that it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining military support," he told CBS News's 60 Minutes.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

The coroner raised concerns that the doctor may have missed opportunities to put Cauchi back on medication after he was weaned off.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

And he said the percentage of animals that have died in the Año Nuevo rookery is relatively small: Only about 5% of weaned pups and 6% of adult males have died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

I weaned him off me by spending half an hour at a time out of his presence, then an afternoon, and finally days away once he was comfortable with his new friends.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

More startling is their failure to discuss commercial baby foods, on which nearly all of America’s new parents depend for navigating the weaning process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

In two-week-old mice, before weaning, dendritic spines were spread relatively evenly across the neuron.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026

In the longer term, the deal won’t do anything to stop China’s strategic goal of weaning itself off U.S. soybeans, Suderman said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

When baby-led weaning became the popular way to feed infants, some said it made parenting a lot harder.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2025

“No news. They're still weaning Nikki off the respirator.”

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg


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