- present participle of feed.
feeding
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"This gives us new insight into how crinoids evolved and how their feeding strategies changed over hundreds of millions of years."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
The whales appear to be feeding on fish that have moved into the warming waters of East Greenland.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
But she was the one that the paparazzi hounded most fiercely, feeding malicious tabloid coverage focused on her body image and weight.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
This feeding behavior may protect them from consuming excessive amounts of certain amino acids when pollen does not provide the nutritional mix they need.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
But right now he didn’t care about Ezra, or about anything other than feeding the skunk kit.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
Rowe regularly traveled to Sawe’s camp in Kenya where they simulated competitive environments and feedings to prepare Sawe’s stomach to handle it—that “gut training” crucial for race day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Biologists had to use a ladder to climb down into the space for his weekly feedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
Not casually, not as a side project, but with the all-in fervor of someone who rearranges their calendar around starter feedings.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2025
On its website, Penny Appeal says it provides poverty relief in Asia, the Middle East and Africa by "offering water solutions, organising mass feedings, supporting orphan care and providing emergency food and medical aid".
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Several feedings later, the second man put Frightful on a perch in the pine forest.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
