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Recent Examples of hand-feedThere are unique adventures that include painting alongside a sea lion, swimming with dolphins, and hand-feeding giant tarpon.—Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025 The Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered the technique over 40 years ago, using a similar mechanism to hand-feed Andean condor chicks in 1981.—Moná Thomas, People.com, 1 May 2025 The puppies went to one foster home, where they were hand-fed every few hours.—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025 Timothy Treadwell, an amateur environmentalist, spent 13 summers filming himself among Alaskan grizzly bears, naming them, petting them, sometimes hand-feeding them, until one of them killed him and his girlfriend, Amie Huguenard, in 2003.—Boutayna Chokrane, Wired News, 22 Apr. 2025 Billy and Michelle Mouw’s family farm has been hand-feeding their chickens and providing fresh eggs for 32 years.—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2025 Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.—Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024 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.—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
The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.
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Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
Napping after overfeeding on food is a dilemma many of us will be fortunate to face on Christmas Day.
And if how well graduates do in the labor market is now a key driver of excellence, that should translate into greater economic mobility for students and a more prepared talent supply to fill key jobs in local economies.
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Matt Gandal,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
Whenever a network booking agent asked for someone from the magazine to fill a seat and dish on the day’s sports news, most writers shrugged.
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