Historical clue formulations

• Removes a dependence (from) — 2025-03-31
• Detaches from a source of dependence — 2025-02-23
• Ceases nursing — 2025-01-10
• Begins giving solid food, say — 2022-10-02
• Helps finish a nursing program? — 2022-01-21
• Slowly eases (off) — 2019-11-03
• Removes from nursing, as a foal — 2019-06-24
• Disengages — 2016-12-30
• Slowly disengages (from) — 2016-09-18
• Starts on baby food, say — 2016-03-30
• Gets off the bottle — 2008-01-06
• Trains to the cup, say — 2005-04-06
• Gradually removes — 2005-02-17
• Withdraws gradually — 2004-11-30
• Makes less dependent — 2002-02-01
• No longer nurses — 2002-01-20
• Helps off a dependency — 2001-06-08
• Takes off life support? — 1999-07-11
• Unhooks, so to speak — 1999-07-01
• Disengages from a habit — 1999-06-06
• Removes dependency (from) — 1998-07-29
• Disengages — 1997-01-25
• Withdraws gradually — 1995-09-19
• Disaccustoms — 1994-05-14