baby face
noun
plural baby faces
1
: a usually rounded face that gives the impression of extreme youth and innocence
2
professional wrestling
: a wrestler who performs the role of the sympathetic protagonist in a staged wrestling match
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Standing way back in the pines on the only hole Augusta National lengthened for this Masters stood a towering man with a baby face and a naive disposition.
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Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
Beauty-store barbarian Sephora tweens stampeding through skin-care aisles and slathering their baby faces in retinol?
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
According to Lucie Greene, a trend forecaster for Light Years, much of our gawking is driven by a primal impulse to search nepo baby faces for recognizable genetic similarities and contrasts with their famous parents, and to praise or shame them accordingly.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
And much of the film’s success lies in the vast spectrum of emotions playing across lead actor Mia McKenna-Bruce’s baby face.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024
And families that had hoped for a baby face excruciating heartache when the pregnancy goes wrong and doctors are barred from helping.
—Elizabeth Warren, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024
The teddy-bear effect: does having a baby face benefit black chief executive officers?
—Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
The photo showed him with a baby face, holding a drum almost a third of his height.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Who could resist my baby face, big eyes, thick afro puffs and squeaky voice?
—Tanikia Carpenter, Parents, 19 Nov. 2023
Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
Beauty-store barbarian Sephora tweens stampeding through skin-care aisles and slathering their baby faces in retinol?
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
According to Lucie Greene, a trend forecaster for Light Years, much of our gawking is driven by a primal impulse to search nepo baby faces for recognizable genetic similarities and contrasts with their famous parents, and to praise or shame them accordingly.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
And much of the film’s success lies in the vast spectrum of emotions playing across lead actor Mia McKenna-Bruce’s baby face.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024
And families that had hoped for a baby face excruciating heartache when the pregnancy goes wrong and doctors are barred from helping.
—Elizabeth Warren, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024
The teddy-bear effect: does having a baby face benefit black chief executive officers?
—Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
The photo showed him with a baby face, holding a drum almost a third of his height.
—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Who could resist my baby face, big eyes, thick afro puffs and squeaky voice?
—Tanikia Carpenter, Parents, 19 Nov. 2023
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“Baby face.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/baby%20face. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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