feeding
Americannoun
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feedings
plural
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the act of a person or thing that feeds.
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an instance of eating or of taking or being given nourishment.
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grazing land.
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Etymology
Origin of feeding
before 900; Middle English feding, Old English fēding. See feed, -ing 1
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The person denied feeding the coyote and allowed the officer to examine the property, which yielded no evidence for filing a violation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Andrew Milgram of Marblegate Asset Management has warned of a potential “doom loop”: Worries about private credit lead retirees to surrender their annuities, forcing more selling of loans that don’t trade, feeding more worry.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
This is the moment the planet's second largest living creature opens its giant jaws and swallows thousands of gallons of water during feeding.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
El-Sayed’s opponents are also feeding voters clips of him, say, campaigning with Piker, which might be their first experience of El-Sayed.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
“He’s here with me, getting spoiled rotten. The men who found you told everyone how Moose laid on top of you and kept you warm. Your dog’s a hero; everyone’s feeding him pieces of doughnut.”
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Chapters in the third person depict the ways that the dog’s uneventful daily life of feedings and naps has been transformed by sickness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Among my food-minded friends, I’ve witnessed exchanges that feel almost intimate in their care: Mason jars of peppery bone broth made for a new mother, cold at the edges and vaguely carnivorous during late-night feedings.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2025
On its website, Penny Appeal says it provides poverty relief in Asia, the Middle East and Africa by "offering water solutions, organising mass feedings, supporting orphan care and providing emergency food and medical aid".
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Amid all the baby relay baton-passing, middle-of-the-night feedings and breast-milk pumping, I read voraciously.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
In addition to the daily multitude, those amateur cooks were faced with allergy cases, diabetics, nursing mothers, infants who required special feedings.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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