How to Use neonate in a Sentence
neonate
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Dines determined that the whale was a female, was a full-term neonate and likely was a week old.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2017
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All eight neonates are healthy, have shed their skin once and started dining on pinky-sized hairless baby mice.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
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One drug has been approved for human use, but only in neonates, so researchers would still need to determine dosages for grown adults.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
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The likelihood that any fetus will survive outside the uterus as a neonate is an estimate based on many factors.
—Cara C. Heuser, Scientific American, 4 May 2022
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The woman’s cat had rejected the all-black kitten, likely because of the little one’s health condition, so the two-faced neonate would need round-the-clock human care to stay alive.
—Laura Barcella, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2019
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One of the most interesting aspects that has come out of William S. Brown’s research is that females stay with the babies, which are called neonates, for a week to 10 or 12 days, until the babies shed.
—National Geographic, 26 June 2016
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Now other zoos are excitedly lining up to get one of the Milwaukee zoo's rhino viper babies, which are called neonates.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
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Yet none of the vast diversity of anesthetic agents work in a consistent manner across all patients, who range from neonates to birthing mothers, the very elderly or the very sick.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
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Another rhino viper pair gave birth to one living neonate in August, though unfortunately that mother died a short time later.
—Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
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The committee cited a potential risk of transferring pathogenic organisms from the woman to the neonate.
—Jane E. Brody, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
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