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yearling

[yeer-ling] / ˈjɪər lɪŋ /
NOUN
young animal
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Jacqui Short Boyce spotted the yearling lying on its back while passing by the field on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

“What he did ... was pretty impressive to me,” Baffert said of the son of Not This Time who sold for $1.15 million as a yearling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

When Flag is on the verge of becoming a yearling, Jody’s father says, “He’ll be like a person standin’ on the state line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Washington’s first known wolf death by cougars, in 2013, was an underweight yearling female traveling on a ridgeline in the Cascade Mountains.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 25, 2023

“How would a woman’s arrow kill a yearling impala?”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


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