yearling

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Doak added that she and the other volunteers named the yearling "Cookie".

From BBC • Mar. 13, 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

Eclipse bought 11 horses during what would be Journalism’s yearling crop.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

Researchers also documented more recent cougar kills: a seven-year-old female wolf in 2019, the yearling female in early September of last year, and then a wolf pup later that month.

From National Geographic • Aug. 25, 2023

“How would a woman’s arrow kill a yearling impala?”

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver