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fledgling
/ ˈflɛdʒlɪŋ /
noun
- a young bird that has just fledged
- a young and inexperienced or untried person, organization or system
fledgling
/ flĕj′lĭng /
- A young bird that has just grown the feathers needed to fly and is capable of surviving outside the nest.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fledgling1
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Example Sentences
But that may just add to the allure for these fledgling leaders.
Three days into the life of the fledgling country and separatists dissemble on how far advanced they are in state making.
He has intimidated and humiliated the fledgling pro-European government in Kiev.
He also has an LP and his own fledgling record company called Chin Stroke.
For a small and fledgling army, open revolution was inconceivable.
Late the next evening, the hedgehog discovered a fledgling thrush hidden in the grass beyond the alders.
A terrified bird flew out of the hedge, no further than a fledgling's flight in front of her.
Only the pinkos call them fascists, but Bertrand de Juvenal, the fledgling ambassador's pal, knows otherwise.
Hilaire was in Japan, and I—a callow fledgling from the nest—was very sick and sorry for myself.
You crow loud as a fledgling cock with your weighty subjects!
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