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Those groups include pregnant people, older adults, infants and toddlers and people with risks of serious disease.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026 -
First responders said the grandmother, who is in her 60s, and the infant, who is about 10 months old, both suffered head trauma.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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After the newborn was out, Bellisario said she was relieved to hear her daughter cry.—
Ariana Quihuiz,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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The reason experts recommend that newborns get the vitamin K shot is because they are born with very little of it in their bodies.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
27 Jan. 2026
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With Pixar-wide eyes and a mop of intricately tousled, treacle-brown hair, the young David (voiced by Brandon Engman) presents here as a plucky, intrepid moppet in the typical cartoon-hero mold.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 Dec. 2025
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Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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The fiddly build and lack of play features make this a Lego set that's better suited for collectors rather than younglings.—
Rich Owen,
Space.com,
29 Nov. 2025
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In theory, that should appeal to a member of the Yautja clan, or — as the case may be — a runty youngling determined to prove his worth and be accepted into his father’s clan.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
4 Nov. 2025
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Number two, what a little time and compassion can do for neonates and orphans.—
Jen Reeder,
Forbes.com,
15 Jan. 2026
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Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.—
Dr. Jade Cobern,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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White sharks gather near rookeries for a buffet as weanlings begin heading out to sea.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025
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The striped dolphin was a female weanling (newly independent from its mother) that stranded freshly deceased on Hampton Beach.—
Breanne Kovatch,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 July 2023
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Siting houses in some of America’s most breathtaking but also rugged terrains, the AD100 architect takes care to create a deep sense of shelter—nestling buildings into hillsides, even blasting into rock—and engineer awe through sweeping vistas and intimate connections to nature.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
19 Jan. 2026
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In Place Some butterfly species can overwinter in place as adults or larvae, nestling between tree bark, under rocks, in seed pods, among curled leaves and leaf litter, or under the soil.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Jan. 2026
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Unlikely Meathead, a whelp who spoke from a position of occasionally whiny, frequently wet-behind-the-ears insulation from life’s realities, Reiner had gray in his beard and a lengthy track record of using his podium for good.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Bantling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bantling. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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