yearling
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Jacqui Short Boyce spotted the yearling lying on its back while passing by the field on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
When Flag is on the verge of becoming a yearling, Jody’s father says, “He’ll be like a person standin’ on the state line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
“Wait, I’ve got to go bid on a horse, I’ll be back in two minutes,” Werth said from a yearling sale at Keeneland, Ky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
The yearling would have barely made a sound as she trotted through brush and dry pine needles on an overgrown path that dropped into a steep canyon.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 25, 2023
“How would a woman’s arrow kill a yearling impala?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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