as in youth
the state or time of being a child
enjoy your childhood—it won't last forever
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Recent Examples of childhood
Jim Hickey, 64, has spent decades trekking across the country, turning his footsteps into funding for childhood cancer.
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Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
He was also struck by how both films treated the recreation of childhood.
—Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026
However, Secretary Kennedy replaced the former ACIP committee members with many vaccine sceptics who have since made substantive changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.
—Professor David R. Hill, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
Florida’s childhood vaccination rates continued to drop in the 2025-26 school year, even as measles cases in the state soared in 2026.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
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Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
He was also struck by how both films treated the recreation of childhood.
—Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026
However, Secretary Kennedy replaced the former ACIP committee members with many vaccine sceptics who have since made substantive changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.
—Professor David R. Hill, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
Florida’s childhood vaccination rates continued to drop in the 2025-26 school year, even as measles cases in the state soared in 2026.
—Cindy Krischer Goodman, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for childhood
Noun
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The city is working to create a youth advisory board to be a liaison between teens and the city government.—
Terell Bailey,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation offers a Free Snack Program that provides nutritious meals for youths — newborns to 18-year-olds — at its public parks.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Her family stays on beside the ruins, and the film charts how occupation and its aftermath become the unremarkable background of her adolescence.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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The first collection, which lands in stores in September, will offer those of us who spent their adolescence admiring his archival runway images on Tumblr a chance to finally get in on the action.—
Alexandra Hildreth,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Childhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childhood. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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