cub
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But cold-calling the president of the United States — on his personal cellphone — made me feel like a cub reporter all over again.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
A spokesperson told the BBC the cub "died of natural causes" but the remaining three are "doing exceptionally well and growing in confidence and character every day".
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The cub, whose coat is still peppered with reddish fur, is very active and still nursing, he said.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
“Home” is a concept that Chase, a newly orphaned cheetah cub, struggles to make sense of.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
Noises boomed unnaturally loud: the gurgle of the river, the hoo-hoo of an owl; the famished yipping of that infuriating cub.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
“I think maybe it’s a mother with cubs, but it’s hard to tell from this far,” Benitez said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Howletts said there were fewer than 400 Sumatran tigers remaining in the wild, which meant the cubs provided a "hugely significant boost" for the future of the species.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
The last fatal bear attack in Yellowstone was in 2015, park officials said, when an adult female grizzly with two cubs killed a solo hiker.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
She knew they were fake because she was well-versed in the behavior of the snow-white predators, which are fiercely protective of cubs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
The two cubs were frolicking in the corner of the cave.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
He set type and cubbed in the summers on nearby weeklies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was sired among the surges; I was cubbed beside the foam; All my heart is in its verges, And the sea wind is my home.
From Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea by Carman, Bliss
“Because we don’t have sight inside her cubbing box we can’t be sure if Victoria has had more than one cub but we can confirm the birth,” she added.
From Reuters ● Jan. 3, 2018
Last Tuesday afternoon, Maclean noticed damp patches appearing on Tian Tian’s cubbing box.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015
She began to spend more time in and around her cubbing box, a basket that her keepers had placed in her den and modified this year to include a heating element.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015
On Thursday, Tian Tian dragged more logs into the cubbing box.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015
Joan had even persuaded him to take her out cubbing.
From The Honour of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
