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cub

[kuhb] / kʌb /
NOUN
young
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One cub managed to escape on its own before help arrived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

A contractor in Steamboat Springs, Colo., opened his truck door in June to find a bear cub devouring his lunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

The tigers include 190kg Kiara, 20-year-old Aschanti, and two-year-old cub Imana.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

If you don’t eat that cub, you’ll be too weak to hunt.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

A large bear and her three cubs fell into the concrete cistern in Marshall Canyon County Park near the Claremont Wilderness Park’s 5-Mile Loop Trail, where they were rescued late Saturday night, the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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

Yet the old lions refuse to surrender to the cubs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The cubs slid through the stinking straw till they fell against the cold trees on the other side.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

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

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

I was sired among the surges; I was cubbed beside the foam; All my heart is in its verges, And the sea wind is my home.

From Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea by Bliss Carman

“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

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

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

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2015

During the cubbing season there had arisen quarrels.

From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope




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