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Recent Examples of whelp
Verb
The alpha male was a foster, and his mate whelped — or gave birth — during the same week, making the pack an ideal candidate to receive pups. Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 29 July 2024 When a captive mother whelps, or gives birth on her own, managers match her pups with a wild den using GPS coordinates from radio collars placed on packs’ breeding alpha male and female. Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 3 May 2024 Given its importance as one of two Northwest Atlantic harp seal whelping grounds, the area is one of Nat Geo’s Best Trips for 2020. Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019 And from Susan’s line, the queen’s breeding program at the Kennels of Windsor whelped hundreds of corgi puppies. William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018 From the queen's breeding program at the Kennels of Windsor, hundreds of royal corgis have been whelped. William Booth, chicagotribune.com, 18 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whelp
Noun
  • On a regular day to get the kids out and on their way, my alarm is set to 6:55.
    Eileen Finan, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
  • But then, footage from her own surveillance cameras shows the kids deliberately taunting her, shaking their butts in her direction.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In 2021, Medicaid covered 1 in 4 children, and 8 in 10 children in poverty.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Try to speak more of the concern – for your friend’s wife and child – than the shock.
    R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Their analysis — which involved examining genetic data and 25 years’ worth of photos — revealed that just 7% of male humpbacks showed evidence of having sired offspring.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Both evolve over time, allowing an ancestral tongue like Latin to sire diverse descendants — Spanish, French, Romanian — that are more closely related to each other than to, say, Korean.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Two more healthy cubs, Bao Bao and Bei Bei, followed in August 2013 and August 2015, respectively.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The three-month-old cub was captured and brought over from China in 1936 by American fashion designer and socialite Ruth Harkness, who was inspired to carry out her late husband's dream.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 24 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • For the pupping season, which lasts from about December to April, the males are fasting from both food and water in order to devote all their energy to defend their harem.
    Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Their pupping sites in the shallower northeastern Caspian Sea are shifting and disappearing, as the animals also struggle against pollution and overfishing.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • In the world of Eraserhead, the first feature of David Lynch, everything is emphatically not fine: Strange industrial noises fill the soundtrack, all efforts at human connection go awry, and worst of all, our hero has fathered a disgusting inhuman creature the wriggles and oozes all over its crib.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Before his death, the wolf had fathered five pups in the Copper Creek pack.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Local authorities were able to coax the bobcat kitten out of the tree and bring it some comfort.
    Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
  • We're just kitten around.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 10 Mar. 2023
Verb
  • The remake’s emphasis on believability comes with a host of simplistic morals, such as how hard work begets dignity, righteous people will experience setbacks but never go unrewarded, and true love wins in the end.
    Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Veneration doesn’t necessarily beget clichés, but Perry’s passion for the generic knows no bounds.
    Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024

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“Whelp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whelp. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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