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noun

ˈin-fənt How to pronounce infant (audio)
Definition of infantnext
as in child
a recently born person infants should be kept warm at all times

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infant

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adjective

as in embryonic

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Recent Examples of infant
Noun
The parents of a 1-year-old baby who mysteriously vanished in 2025 are now behind bars in Broward — accused of killing the infant through neglect. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026 His wife, Immaculata, put their infant daughter to sleep, then went to bed herself. — Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Adjective
The lawsuit further alleged that the chain sold expired infant formula and baby food products, prosecutors said. — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026 For decades, research into RSV had been stymied by past failures, leaving no way to prevent the thousands of infant respiratory deaths that occur worldwide every year. — Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for infant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infant
  1. child
  2. embryonic
  3. baby
  4. budding
  5. newborn
  6. primordial
  7. toddler
  8. germinal
Noun
  • The dogs played such a significant role in the King and Camilla’s lives that the latter had a sketch of her dogs embroidered on her coronation dress along with the names of her children and grandchildren.
    — Audrey Schmidt, PEOPLE, 9 Aug. 2026
  • One Houthi attack on Thursday injured 11 civilians, including a 4-year-old child, according to the Saudi military.
    — Fatma Khaled, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of child
Adjective
  • Still, despite the breakneck pace at which large language models and agentic AI are evolving, AI devices are still in the embryonic stage and very much undefined—a fact that may play to Ive’s strengths.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 22 July 2026
  • In the late 1990s and early 2000s, debates over human embryonic stem cell research drew national attention to what happens to embryos that remain after IVF.
    — Risa Cromer, The Conversation, 17 July 2026
Definition of embryonic
Noun
  • Head Start serves more than half a million low-income babies, toddlers and preschoolers nationwide.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Modamily now has more than 120,000 users, and it’s led to more than 1,000 babies being born, according to Fatovic.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of baby
Adjective
  • 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.
    — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026
  • The camp will let budding designers explore and take the world of fashion to the next level using AI tools.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
Definition of budding
Noun
  • As technology continues to improve, the day when every newborn's genome can be read at birth and every adult's genome can be read on request draws closer.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • In the early months, they’re used to swaddle newborns (often with a silent prayer for a nap that’s longer than 20 minutes).
    — Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of newborn
Adjective
  • Even experienced eclipse chasers get a knot in their stomach about now as a primordial fear kicks in.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The primordial ooze here remains a blend of pluggnB and West Coast rap experimentalism a la Odd Future, the same sauce that linked 2023’s Balling Out of Spite with last year’s level-up art Pop*Pop Art.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
Definition of primordial
Noun
  • Research consistently shows the foods toddlers choose early on affects their taste preferences, making dietary habits ingrained and influencing diet later in life.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Is this all akin to a toddler outfitted in North Face gear so the child can climb around a playground or be prepared for whatever extremes might arise at the Whole Foods deli counter?
    — Matt Degen, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of toddler
Adjective
  • 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
  • That’s the germinal disc and an indication the egg is fertile.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2025
Definition of germinal

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