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bottle-feed

[bot-l-feed] / ˈbɒt lˌfid /


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Or bottle-feed a joey on Australia’s Kangaroo Island?

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

Are you going to breastfeed or bottle-feed or some combination of both?

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2020

MeoowzResQ agreed to foster and bottle-feed the puppies, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2019

There was one occasion when my father was in black tie and my mother in a long evening dress and they were trying to bottle-feed lambs surrounded by poo.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2016

Over coffee they shiver: they themselves are fastidious, they will bottle-feed, which is anyway more sanitary.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

A caregiver wore a protective gown and gloves as she bottle-fed a baby -- one of hundreds of children orphaned by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Zoo biologist Michele Viana introduced me directly to Miguel, who was raised by hand and bottle-fed in rehab.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

She shared black-and-white photos of herself posing in a suit, heels and a white lace bralette and another photo of her newborn being bottle-fed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

“The nutrition of every bottle-fed infant in America is at stake.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026

Or get bottle-fed, if you’re a small blind kitten with a white dot between your eyes that only needs a little extra love to become a pouncing, lively mouser.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

For example, kittens require bottle-feeding multiple times a day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But now we found ourselves bottle-feeding Hayden, as we named him, four times a day and later celebrating his successful use of the litter box like the proudest of parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

“No one ever judged me, but I felt ashamed I was bottle-feeding and sad that I couldn’t breastfeed like them,” she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024

“Your eyelashes freeze in minutes out here,” said Ms. Agan, adding that the biggest challenge was keeping her fingers warm, even in thick gloves, while bottle-feeding some of the calves.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

Mrs. Ortiz often fostered infants, so she spent many hours bottle-feeding them.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter


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