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pup

[puhp] / pʌp /




NOUN
puppy
Synonyms


NOUN
whelp
Synonyms




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He introduced the couple’s adorable white pup to the world while starring in Tommy Hilfiger’s fall 2026 ad campaign.

From MarketWatch Sep. 7, 2026

Sayers also expressed concern about this year's seal pup season, describing it as one of the worst on record.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Menlo Park firefighters said they got a call over the weekend from a worried resident who saw a pup swimming out into the bay.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2026

The pup reads like a burst of “caring, energy, and joy.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Jello flopped down, too, but the black pup still looked around.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

"More than half of the seal pups we've recorded so far this year have been dead or dying."

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

When temperatures rise, the females abandon their pups to hunt for food, he explained.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Bird flu has killed thousands of southern elephant seal pups on remote Antarctic islands belonging to Australia, new research has shown.

From BBC Jun. 18, 2026

We counted nine capybaras: an adult male, four adult females, and four medium-sized pups.

From Slate May 27, 2026

These are mere shelters for the pups and are open at two ends.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

"Our dog is so good that the fox has pupped in our poultry house."

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley

A thought struck me: one of the many curs, which range wild throughout Tehran, had just pupped under a ruined archway, close to our house.

From The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier

John Lang, Esq., deputy-sheriff of Selkirk, had a female cur big with pups, which on one occasion, when out in the fields attending the cattle, was taken in travail, and pupped on the moor.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse

Let's see; how long have I been a-wearin' of that shirt; oh, I remember, I bought it jist two days afore Five Bob was pupped.

From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson

After a bitch has pupped, there always is from the vagina a discharge, which rarely ceases before a week expires, and sometimes flows forth for a longer period.

From The Dog by Dinks

"Although all of the cownose rays in Bermuda to date are females, we also observed small, immature rays suggesting pupping may have recently occurred here," said Ajemian.

From Science Daily May 20, 2024

On my drive home, I became intent on documenting harp seals as a face of the climate crisis and have returned to the gulf’s pupping grounds over and over again for the past decade.

From National Geographic Jan. 23, 2024

The Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 made it safe for the seals to return from Canadian waters, but they didn’t establish pupping colonies until the early 1990s.

From Scientific American Jul. 2, 2023

The agency was most concerned with people who scared the seals during pupping season, prompting a “flushing” stampede of these animals toward the water.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 14, 2016

When it comes on a week or two prior to pupping, we may cure it; but during, or soon after parturition, the bitch generally perishes.

From The Dog by Dinks




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