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The underground club scene, as a result, is still in its infancy. — Vogue, "This All-Female DJ Collective Wants to Empower the Women of Shanghai’s Nocturnal World," 15 May 2019 Today, at Google I/O, AI chief Scott Huffman gave a demonstration that could easily be Star Trek tech in its infancy. — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, "Google Just Proved That Our Voice Is the Ultimate UI," 7 May 2019 The couple has five children: one, Daniel, dies in infancy, and their youngest child, Tom, is born with spina bifida, requiring frequent surgeries. — Eve Macsweeney, Vogue, "In A Life of My Own, One of the Great Biographers Turns the Focus on Herself," 20 July 2018 These areas mature quite early and are active even in infancy. — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, "For Babies, Life May Be a Trip," 18 July 2018 Autonomy is still in its infancy, and self-driving cars (despite public perception) are still prototypes, not products. — James Vincent, The Verge, "Global preferences for who to save in self-driving car crashes revealed," 24 Oct. 2018 From infancy, human beings develop specific attachments to particular people and places around them, and those connections underpin commitment, care, trust, and love. — Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic, "When Truth and Reason Are No Longer Enough," 17 Mar. 2018 The high school senior has lasting developmental challenges caused by a brain tumor in her infancy, as well as Prader-Willi Syndrome, a genetic condition which affects her appetite. — Ryan Adelson, Good Housekeeping, "WATCH: Crowd Goes Wild After Special Needs Student Scores Final Basket," 6 Feb. 2017 Clark took guardianship of her two children, though it is not known whether her daughter, Lisette, lived past infancy. — Ruth Hopkins, Teen Vogue, "Sacagawea Changed the Course of History and Deserves Respect," 11 Jan. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'infancy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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