fledgling
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There’s a lot of bad crowd work out there, just like there is bad anything else — fledgling or whatever rookie stuff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
The end of the Revolutionary War meant the fledgling U.S. no longer had the protection of Great Britain’s Royal Navy, the largest fleet in the world.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
He also conceded his party had also lost votes to rightwing rival Restore Britain, founded by ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe, which finished third in a breakthrough night for the fledgling party.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
The fledgling market is starting to get crowded.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
This was the most important way he kept himself informed about the hundreds of things happening in the fledgling nation.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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Their fledglings are about one third lighter, even though the warmest days they experience reach similar temperatures of about 16-17ºC.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The early seeds of Owens Viani’s work on the issue began around 2011, when a neighbor ran over to tell her that Cooper’s hawk fledglings had drowned in his kiddie pool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
Birdhouse owners say that they wait until the fledglings have left the nest before they harvest and that neither the parents nor their babies are harmed.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
The islands’ Department of Environment said the culling will take place in the eastern region of Cayman Brac island, where only 13 brown booby fledglings out of 42 eggs survived last year.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
Without the fledglings to feed she grew heavier, but weight alone was not enough to start her migrating.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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