as in child
a recently born person
infants should be kept warm at all times
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Recent Examples of infant
Yvonne Villasenor,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
Before an infant leaves the hospital, screening will include a crucial pulse oximetry test to look for critical congenital heart disease.
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Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Nov. 2025
Health experts warn the number of illnesses in this outbreak could rise as officials reopen investigations into cases of infant botulism from earlier in the year.
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Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
26 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Researchers found that having a cat or dog in your home could result in protection from pet (and pollen) allergies in infants.
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Yvonne Villasenor,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
Before an infant leaves the hospital, screening will include a crucial pulse oximetry test to look for critical congenital heart disease.
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Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Adjective
The recall was issued after the FDA identified 83 cases of infant botulism nationwide, with 13 of those having received ByHeart formula at some point.
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Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Nov. 2025
Health experts warn the number of illnesses in this outbreak could rise as officials reopen investigations into cases of infant botulism from earlier in the year.
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Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
26 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infant
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The 44-year-old singer's children, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, made a rare joint public appearance at Paris Men's Fashion Week after TMZ reported that the two would achieve a runway milestone together during the days-long sartorial event overseas.
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Sandra Cherfrere, an attorney and child of Haitian immigrants, highlighted the practical complications for families with children born abroad.
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One protein called periostin appeared strongly in the shark notochord (a structure that helps organize embryonic development).
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In the early 2000s, when researchers first began using embryonic stem cells, many institutions added a second review step involving what’s known as a stem cell research oversight (SCRO) committee.
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But Inciarte’s cousin and her baby were in La Guaira when the disaster began unfolding, and the family has not received any information or updates about them.
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But even the babies in Rising Star are all female.
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Following the characters’ daily lives as tweens, the series shows us a much more vulnerable Angelica (Cheryl Chase), and a not-so-bald Tommy’s (Elizabeth Daily) imagination evolving into a budding filmmaking career.
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Brown secured Special Temporary Membership on the PGA Tour that week, solidifying his status as one of the game’s youngest and hottest budding stars.
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That lack of legal status might make some newborns immediately eligible for deportation.
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This free reading program for children from newborns to age 8 at West Atlanta Watershed Alliance includes a hands-on activity.
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Earth-impacting shrapnel from those primordial upheavals may have helped seed our planet with the precursors for life, delivering water and organic compounds from the dark, icy depths of the outer solar system.
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At a time when the Earth was bare, when there were no vertebrates, no trees, no leaves, no flowering plants, and no plants with seeds, millipedes were feeding on decaying mosses, decomposed slime, and primordial gunk.
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Argentine athlete Lucas Trejo lost his wife and two children, while Héctor Bello’s partner died protecting their toddler.
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Two women and a toddler were found dead Saturday night at a Jackson, Mississippi, home, according to police.
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President Trump’s germinal proposal to extend ObamaCare subsidies has created new headaches for GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.
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Vaccines combining slow release and follicle targeting of antigens increase germinal center B cell diversity and clonal expansion.
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“Infant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infant. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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