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Wean meaning
To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder. | To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder. | To habituate (someone) to something, especially since childhood.
Example sentences (20)
After this initial time of limited phone and TV “to wean them away from overdependence on technology and its stimulation,” they get more access and mostly make their own choices.
Biden came into office vowing to wean the country off fossil fuels, but Russia's invasion of Ukraine got in the way.
Biden’s deal to expand gas shipments to the EU, Peck said, aimed to help wean the collection of countries off of Russian natural gas over the next five years.
Croatia has been ramping up efforts to exploit its extensive geothermal resources in recent years as it looks to wean itself off imported fossil fuels.
Dubbed the “oil of the 21st century,” lithium is essential for the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles, which should allow cars to wean themselves off CO2-emitting oil.
Germany will switch off its last three nuclear reactors on Saturday, exiting atomic power even as it seeks to wean itself off fossil fuels and manage an energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
Hamstead outlined that the Columbia Valley as an advantage when it comes to going Zero Carbon: it does not have a natural gas, so there is no need to wean people off that fossil fuel as a home energy source.
He said: "Vaping was originally marketed as a substitute and lower risk alternative to smoking, in a possible short term attempt to wean adults off smoking.
It would need to wean off the dollar (a huge challenge for them) before a BRICS currency, or Yuan ruled the world.
My complaint is more fundamental: it concerns the apparent inability of our political establishment to wean itself from obsolete thinking.
Now, it has emerged the Prime Minister could introduce some of the world's most strict anti-smoking laws to try and wean the next generation off.
Of course, some folks solve the problem by calving later in the spring, but that means they have to wean later in the year.
Pushed by Germany's attempt to wean itself off Russian gas, demand for energy efficient heat pumps rose last year, with sales jumping 50 per cent, Bosch said, adding that it will expand its manufacturing capacity for heat pumps in Europe.
Rather than encouraging drilling, leftwing president Gustavo Petro has increased oil taxes and banned new exploration contracts to wean the country off fossil fuels.
Secondly, the EU has decided that it will seek to wean itself off of Russian energy and, in order to do so, it will have to produce a great deal of electricity from renewables and become much less reliant on fossil fuels.
So how can we wean ourselves off addictions?
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s decision comes as the kingdom is trying to build a series of megaprojects and invest in sports and other fields aggressively abroad to wean the country off of relying solely on oil.
Duggan says that most publishers have been trying to wean themselves of Facebook for years, with some success, but the member survey still showed the platform was responsible for an average of 20 per cent of digital publishers’ referral traffic.
His mystery was supposed to wean away one day.
If we wish to wean California off fossil fuels, why not make driving a gas-powered car more expensive so that motorists, if not environmentally motivated, will be financially nudged to trade in their gas guzzler for an EV?