fledgling
noun
a young bird just fledged.
fledgeling
-
a variation of
fledgling.
Example Sentences
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Longtime Disney CEO Iger returned late last year to help stanch losses from the fledgeling streaming service Disney+.
From Reuters ● Jan. 13, 2023
Star Trek booked 90 minutes of Hall H time to try and convince nerds to shell out for the fledgeling CBS All Access streaming service.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2019
Or that that fledgeling start-up would someday grow to make a public stock offering bigger than that of Google.
From Inc ● May 17, 2012
But yet, but let the plunging torrent rise, The winds awake on glutted rivers rolled— We die as the reft robin fledgeling dies— We perish as the beast in jungles old.
From The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Logan Marshall
Rooks, though generally cleanly feeders, will at times eat almost anything, from a mussel to a fledgeling bird.
From The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies
