nurslings

noun

Definition of nurslingsnext
plural of nursling
1
as in newborns

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2
as in convalescents

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  1. victims
  2. newborn
  3. toddlers
Noun
  • Automated and enabled by AI, criminal hackers will continue to extort victims at a startling rate in 2025.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Relatives of most, but not all the victims, denounced Biden’s Christmas week decision to spare the killers.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of victims
Noun
  • As such, Herod’s massacre would have evoked a familiar Old Testament story in which the Egyptian Pharaoh orders all Jewish newborns to be slaughtered in an effort to kill the infant Moses.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The video, which was not ultimately shown to Lively, featured an image of Heath, his wife, and their newborn after a home birth.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of newborn
Noun
  • Any toy with small pieces, like dolls' accessories or Legos, can present a choking and aspiration hazard, especially for toddlers.
    Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Three other tents house a mail room, caseworkers and a cafeteria, where Venezuelan toddlers rub shoulders with Asian children over blaring salsa music.
    Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of toddlers
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