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cub

[kuhb] / kʌb /
NOUN
young
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The first cub died at 2 weeks after it became lethargic, stopped nursing and was removed from Ruby’s care into a temperature-controlled incubator to receive intervention from veterinary teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

And never get between a parent and her cub.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

But cold-calling the president of the United States — on his personal cellphone — made me feel like a cub reporter all over again.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

A spokesperson told the BBC the cub "died of natural causes" but the remaining three are "doing exceptionally well and growing in confidence and character every day".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

For a while the cub followed him; then it sat down and mewed at him to come back.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

According to the ministry, conflicts between bears and humans are "relatively rare" unless the animals are startled or protecting their cubs and food.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

It is her way of culling the weaklings; she will care only for the cubs that survive the fall and clamber back up to the bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

That pair and their two youngest cubs returned in 2024 to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where their five older offspring also live.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Coming so soon after the loss of her newborn cubs, this is a devastating blow to our entire Zoo family,” the Facebook post read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

The cubs were afraid and huddled down in the farthest corner of their prison.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Later, he cubbed on a provincial paper, did his brief stint on the Times and went up to Manchester to become a reporter on the Evening News.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had cubbed for his new job on the Star by pinch-hitting for ailing Wolcott Gibbs in the New Yorker last season.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stauffer cubbed on the Emporia Gazette, became a reporter and copyreader on the Kansas City Star, where he worked five years.

From Time Magazine Archive

He set type and cubbed in the summers on nearby weeklies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon my inquiry of Big Bill respecting his operations on the previous day, he replied that he "guessed he had been occupied in running away from the biggest grizzly bear that ever was cubbed."

From Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 by Sir Samuel White Baker

“Because we don’t have sight inside her cubbing box we can’t be sure if Victoria has had more than one cub but we can confirm the birth,” she added.

From Reuters ● Jan. 3, 2018

On Thursday, Tian Tian dragged more logs into the cubbing box.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015

She began to spend more time in and around her cubbing box, a basket that her keepers had placed in her den and modified this year to include a heating element.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015

Last Tuesday afternoon, Maclean noticed damp patches appearing on Tian Tian’s cubbing box.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015

"Dad and I are never back by eight-thirty when we go cubbing, are we, Dad?" she said.

From The Top of the World by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell


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