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yearling

noun as in young animal

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“They’ve just been tearing into our baby calves, mostly our yearlings.”

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Eclipse bought 11 horses during what would be Journalism’s yearling crop.

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She added that because only adults were collared, “kids and yearlings may have been underrepresented.”

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BUTLER, Pa. — A woman was injured in a bear attack while letting her dog outside, and Pennsylvania game commission employees killed the mother bear and tranquilized her three yearling cubs, authorities said.

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His message to the students, known as yearlings, was simple: Their loyalty is “not about particular candidates. It’s not a particular person or personality that occupies these positions. It’s about the Constitution.”

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