as in child
a recently born person
infants should be kept warm at all times
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Recent Examples of infant
Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
Kroll compared the state of the field to the late 20th century, when the dominant thinking was that exposing infants and young children to two or more languages put them at a educational disadvantage.
—Stephen Wade, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
American pediatricians count the number of ounces of milk and feeds per day, discourage night feedings and push to wean mainly to infant formula by the first birthday, even as the World Health Organization recommends two years or beyond.
La Leche League, in contrast, is adamantly pro-breastfeeding.
—Alexandra Bregman, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
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Noun
Without medical training, someone in the group was guided by a nurse on a smartphone screen giving instructions on how to extract the infant, according to court documents.
—Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2026
Kroll compared the state of the field to the late 20th century, when the dominant thinking was that exposing infants and young children to two or more languages put them at a educational disadvantage.
—Stephen Wade, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the leading cause of infant suffocation during sleeping hours is soft bedding.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Sep. 2025
American pediatricians count the number of ounces of milk and feeds per day, discourage night feedings and push to wean mainly to infant formula by the first birthday, even as the World Health Organization recommends two years or beyond.
La Leche League, in contrast, is adamantly pro-breastfeeding.
—Alexandra Bregman, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infant
Noun
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If your children do homework at the kitchen table instead of their bedrooms, find a spot to keep school supplies handy.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
10 Jan. 2026
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Questioning the powerful influences that oversee and fund what our children learn is critical.—
SHELLEY SMITH SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE,
Arkansas Online,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The new discovery adds to the growing assortment of bioelectrical phenomena that scientists have discovered playing out beyond the nervous system, from bacteria swapping signals within a biofilm to cells following electric fields during embryonic development.—
Elise Cutts,
Quanta Magazine,
12 Jan. 2026
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Unlike conventional organoid methods that rely on induced pluripotent stem cells or embryonic stem cells, the new technique avoids single-cell dissociation entirely.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Bündchen and her now-husband, Joaquim Valente, welcomed their first baby, a boy, together in February 2025.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
16 Jan. 2026
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Cornerback Darious Williams was away from the team on Wednesday for the birth of his child, a baby boy.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Roberts and budding linebacker/safety John Curry will man the interior linebacker spots in 2026 alongside at least one portal addition.—
Ty Kaplan,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Jan. 2026
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On the second day of April, a budding hero was born when footage of fencer Stephanie Turner kneeling to protest a trans opponent at a USA Fencing event went viral.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Jafery said this additional ingredient in masa will make drastic improvements in the health of newborns with little changes in production and the lives of tortilla consumers.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
January 12,
Sacbee.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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High vaccination rates build herd immunity, which helps prevent disease transmission to high-risk groups including newborns, the elderly and cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.—
Allison Ong,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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There’s always been something primordial about the show’s appeal.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
15 Jan. 2026
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Testing an idea older than the discovery itself To explore this mystery, the researchers turned to an idea proposed decades ago but never confirmed—primordial black holes.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Two people were killed and two others, including a toddler, were injured in a wrong-way crash in Totowa, New Jersey, earlier this week.—
Adi Guajardo,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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So Xezal would bring either of her toddlers, the youngest having yet to speak her first word, to sit late into the night listening to Rafiq and his friends recite the effect of circulation time on the magnitude of capital advanced.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Vaccines combining slow release and follicle targeting of antigens increase germinal center B cell diversity and clonal expansion.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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That’s the germinal disc and an indication the egg is fertile.—
Joan Morris,
The Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Infant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infant. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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