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Recent Examples of hand-feed
But the people who did the actual hands-on work of incubating the eggs and hand-feeding the chicks around the clock were a dedicated team of aviculturists and bird keepers.
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Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
But when hand-fed something yummy, the rats still liked it.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
Guests can snorkel the artificial Grand Reef teeming with fish and graceful rays, spend hours floating the lazy river that winds under waterfalls, and hand-feed birds in the aviary.
—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Beyond the bustle of cleaning wounds and hand-feeding animals — some of the babies need to be fed every one to two hours — there’s the sheer amount of housekeeping that goes into caring for this many animals.
—Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
According to Australia media, the couple visited the zoo for a private tour and were photographed hand-feeding a kangaroo and snapping selfies in between assorted PDA.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
The Memphis Zoo welcomed the baby pygmy slow loris in a Jan. 29 Facebook video, which showed the endangered primate being hand-fed by staff.
—Makiya Seminera, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
Grrlscientist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
Animal encounters allow a more up-close look at some of your favorite critters, such as hand-feeding a bison or touching a rhino.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2024
But when hand-fed something yummy, the rats still liked it.
—Celia Ford, Vox, 22 May 2024
Guests can snorkel the artificial Grand Reef teeming with fish and graceful rays, spend hours floating the lazy river that winds under waterfalls, and hand-feed birds in the aviary.
—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
Beyond the bustle of cleaning wounds and hand-feeding animals — some of the babies need to be fed every one to two hours — there’s the sheer amount of housekeeping that goes into caring for this many animals.
—Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
According to Australia media, the couple visited the zoo for a private tour and were photographed hand-feeding a kangaroo and snapping selfies in between assorted PDA.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
The Memphis Zoo welcomed the baby pygmy slow loris in a Jan. 29 Facebook video, which showed the endangered primate being hand-fed by staff.
—Makiya Seminera, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hand-feed
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Parents generally spoon-feed jars of pureed foods for a few months in the first year of life when introducing solids, but pouches marketed to parents of toddlers and older children have prolonged pureed food eating by years.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Buyers are proactive today, eager to find information through online research themselves rather than waiting for someone to spoon-feed it to them.Kelly Hopping, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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The goal is steady feeding without overfeeding, which can damage the tree.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Oct. 2024
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Her methods, the court concluded, included injecting premature infants with air or insulin, overfeeding them, and harming them with medical tools.The Week UK, theweek, 28 July 2024
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Too much filler fattening up this episode, and too little meat on the bone.Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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All the vampires begin to feel like failures — and there’s so much negative energy in the air that Colin is fattening up before our very eyes.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 21 Oct. 2024
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To stop is to die, or, worse, to be force-fed a clip of Ricky Gervais saying words.Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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Boyd and her cohorts were there to document their dispersal, compiling data while force-feeding wood stoves to heat drafty cabins in subzero winters.Ben Long, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2024
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Huts fill up fast, so check each property’s for pricing and availability.Margaret Jackson, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2024
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The nature is pretty cool My ship’s route from the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean was a beautiful one, filled with islands ringed in red-earthed cliffs and dark, forested riversides.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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