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wean

[ween] / win /
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detach
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Appeared in the May 5, 2026, print edition as 'RFK Jr. Seeks to Wean Some People Off Antidepressants'.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

Q. Re: She Doesn’t Need to Night Wean: I completely disagree with your assertion that a 14-month-old should be sleeping through the night.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2015

Neither are the bone-weary hackers who trudge out of Wean Hall at dawn's first light.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hour approaches midnight on the campus of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but in Wean Hall, C.M.U.'s computer center, it might as well be high noon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spirit of God! descend upon my heart; Wean it from earth; through all its pulses move; Stoop to my weakness, mighty as thou art, And make me love thee as I ought to love.

From Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration by Steinmetz, Margaret Bird




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