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yearling

[yeer-ling] / ˈjɪər lɪŋ /
NOUN
young animal
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Doak added that she and the other volunteers named the yearling "Cookie".

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

The yearling would have barely made a sound as she trotted through brush and dry pine needles on an overgrown path that dropped into a steep canyon.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 25, 2023

They had been standing over the fire with a spitted pig, a yearling.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer




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