as in babyhood
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Recent Examples of infancy
Among babies diagnosed with it, the disease kills 50% of them by early infancy.
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Keerthana Pakanati, ABC News, 15 May 2025
Jarrow's case stems back to the infancy of the pandemic.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
The museum, still in its infancy, is effectively left out of Trump’s proposed 2026 budget.
—Vivienne Serret, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Travel planning for Continuum residents is in its infancy, but increasingly on the rise.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Keerthana Pakanati, ABC News, 15 May 2025
Jarrow's case stems back to the infancy of the pandemic.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
The museum, still in its infancy, is effectively left out of Trump’s proposed 2026 budget.
—Vivienne Serret, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Travel planning for Continuum residents is in its infancy, but increasingly on the rise.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infancy
adolescence
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Developmentally, this is very important, particularly during adolescence.—
Linda Darling-Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Ray fashioned a bildungsroman that charts the childhood, adolescence, and adulthood of Apu, a boy who moves from rural Bengal to Calcutta, as his country dramatically changes in the early 20th century.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2025
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“Infancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infancy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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