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Last year, Connecticut doctors diagnosed a 6-year-old with SSPE, and in California, a school-age child who'd had measles as an infant died of it.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026 -
Monitoring for symptoms is especially critical for people who have not been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, particularly infants under one year of age who are not routinely recommended for the vaccine.—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Staly went on to say that under Florida's Safe Haven Law, parents who cannot care for a newborn can bring the child at birth to a local fire station, hospital or law enforcement agency to surrender it.—
Steven Yablonski,
CBS News,
10 Mar. 2026
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And the adjustment to your new body and to your life now revolving around your newborn’s needs 24/7 can be challenging.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
9 Mar. 2026
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Flesh wounds, fetid moppets, breastmilk-leaking nipples, and sudden gushes of blood make for a Monty Python-style of ribald humor that will alienate and enchant in equal measure.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 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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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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The ball nestling into the net was greeted with the unique mix of cheers and groans in Viejas Arena that, to the gambling crowd, can mean only one thing.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The only thing these Polish cities have in common is their nestling along the Vistula River.—
Sally Susman,
Time,
27 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 18 Mar. 2026.
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