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breast-feed

[brest-feed] / ˈbrɛstˌfid /


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She plans to breast-feed as long as she can, aiming for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

It’s an unusual combination of autobiography, diplomatic history, moral argument and manual on how to breast-feed a child with one hand while talking to Secretary of State John Kerry on a cellphone with the other.

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019

So researchers are left mainly with observational studies, which examine the babies whose mothers have chosen to breast-feed.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

In her latest collection, the author unspools eight tales, including one about a new mother who ensures the safety of her infant by agreeing to breast-feed the devil.

From Washington Post • May 23, 2019

For us, as in America, it’s known to be healthy to breast-feed.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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