INFANCY Synonyms: 20 Similar and Opposite Words

infancy

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as in babyhood

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Recent Examples of infancy However, tequila’s secondary market activity is very much in its infancy. — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 July 2026 The Blossom Hill location is Action Day’s 14th campus, joining a child development hub that serves roughly 3,000 students ranging in age from infancy through eighth grade. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 28 June 2026 For over 40 years now, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has made some of the strangest, most beautiful movies in existence, films that replicate the magical qualities of cinema in its infancy, both paying tribute to Maddin’s influences and wryly satirizing them. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 25 June 2026 About half need open-heart surgery during infancy. — Michelle Sie Whitten, STAT, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for infancy

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His arms, still rounded with the softness of babyhood, were raised; his hands behind his head.

— Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2025

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Fueled by gritty guitars and a bluesy rock swagger, the song channels the music that shaped Twain’s youth while revisiting the confidence, freedom and idealism of adolescence.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 10 July 2026
Some observers—especially on the left—dismiss the recent rush of commentary as vaguely racist media hype, or as the latest chapter in society’s vain effort to quell the permanent volcano of adolescence.

— Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026

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