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as in child
a recently born person
the baby is just learning to sit up, so be careful
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as in person
a member of the human race
I don't care what you want, there'll be no more work for this baby today
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as in success
a successful result brought about by hard work
a small film that was a labor of love and the baby that the director was proudest of
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as in complainer
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things
don't be such a baby—the shot didn't hurt that much
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as in to nurse
to treat with great or excessive care
he babied his car, faithfully washing it every week if you baby him he'll never learn to take care of himself
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Recent Examples of baby
Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
Diaper access keeps babies healthy, parents employed and families afloat.
—Amy Kadens, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
Plus, judging by Dustin May, Walker Buehler and many others, babying a pitcher doesn’t seem too effective.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
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Verb
For me, my character’s heart was truly genuine in only wanting to protect and save that baby.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
Diaper access keeps babies healthy, parents employed and families afloat.
—Amy Kadens, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
Adjective
The sensitive child of the bunch doesn’t need to be babied.
—Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 28 Nov. 2023
Plus, judging by Dustin May, Walker Buehler and many others, babying a pitcher doesn’t seem too effective.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baby
Noun
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Leaving could also result in a divorce or a custody battle over children that could take many years to untangle.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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Looking at the imagery of The Sun card in the Tarot, this is a reminder that your inner child is not gone, but ready to be reawakened.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 July 2025
Noun
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Still, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that about 34 people a day in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 42 minutes.—
Josh Max,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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And while a normal person will just digest that and process it, an allergic person actually sees this as a foreign threat.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 July 2025
Noun
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The Frozen Zoo has notched some reproductive breakthroughs over the years, including in 2023 when researchers were able to successfully freeze sunflower sea star sperm, thaw it and fertilize eggs that resulted in larvae developing with a high rate of success.—
Karen Kucher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 July 2025
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In our current complex global economy, success will belong to enterprises built to thrive amid volatility, not those waiting for the turbulence to pass.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
Verb
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When plants fail to perform as expected, gardeners often reach for fertilizer or the watering hose, trying to nurse plants into production.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
5 July 2025
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Rebekka Card was nursing her 4-month-old son, Hayden, when the unthinkable happened.—
Meredith Wilshere,
People.com,
5 July 2025
Adjective
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New in select theaters on streaming on premium video on demand, Off the Grid stars Duhamel as Guy, a brilliant scientist hiding out in the wild from a megalomaniac employer who wants to weaponize his mini cold fusion reactor for nefarious purposes.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Zooming in on the image, however, I was struck less by what Allen was up to—innocently snapping photos on the festival grounds—than what loomed behind her: an array of Native American-style tipis, forming a mini village just a stone’s throw away from the main stages.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
30 June 2025
Noun
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In passenger cars, car seats reduce the risk of fatal injury by 71 percent for infants and by 54 percent for toddlers.—
Michelle Stansbury,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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An infant being awake at this time is something most parents would probably dread seeing.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Six men were inside a 2018 GMC Sierra pickup truck at the time of the shooting.—
Racquel Bazos,
Baltimore Sun,
1 July 2025
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The future of collaboration is not man versus machine, but man with machine—in an open, visible process where every contributor can see, learn from, and be fairly assessed for their effort.—
David Ferrucci,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
Noun
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More precisely, the guest list was a delicate trigonometric reflection of the couple’s affections with a very strong quotient of the regard in which the business accomplishments of the groom are held.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Although Oak Park resident Harriet Hawkins is nothing but humble when asked about her accomplishments, her son and husband have no doubts why the longtime nurse, nurse educator and mission volunteer has been chosen for the 2025 Judith C. Kelleher Award by the Emergency Nurses Association.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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“Baby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baby. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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