as in child
a recently born person
infants should be kept warm at all times
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Recent Examples of infant
Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
The bullet entered the right side of the infant’s face and exited the back of her head, missing her brain stem by a few centimeters.
—John Johnston, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
Dallas News, 17 May 2022
The Sturgis plant closed in February after regulators launched an investigation into possible links between formula produced there and a series of infant bacterial infections and two deaths.
—Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Noun
My father, who was born in Ukraine, was brought to St. Joseph, Missouri, as an infant.
—Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
The bullet entered the right side of the infant’s face and exited the back of her head, missing her brain stem by a few centimeters.
—John Johnston, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
Adjective
Arnaout warned against attempting to make formula at home, because commercial formulas are specially designed for infant nutritional needs.
—Dallas News, 17 May 2022
The Sturgis plant closed in February after regulators launched an investigation into possible links between formula produced there and a series of infant bacterial infections and two deaths.
—Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Duff, 37, is currently focusing on her four children after welcoming a daughter, Townes, with husband Matthew Koma less than a year ago in May 2024.Liza Esquibias, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
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Musk walked into Thune’s office with one of his children perched atop his shoulders.Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Texas Supreme Court is also currently considering taking up a lawsuit over IVF embryo division after a divorce — a case that could allow the court's nine conservative justices to rule on embryonic personhood.Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 23 May 2024
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Mount and Fernandes’ partnership as false nines is in its embryonic stages and the success of Ten Hag’s approach is dependent on every player fulfilling their role in the system, not just the front two.Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
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Brittney Griner and her wife Cherelle are introducing the world to their baby boy.Dominique Fluker, Essence, 28 Nov. 2024
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And now, after the long nuclear winter of aural isolation, the clouds have parted, the sun is shining through, and the cassette is back, baby.SPIN Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024
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Fans say she should be celebrated for choosing a traditional path as a mother of eight who sacrificed her budding ballet career to marry and move to the countryside.Erin Alberty, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
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Charli’s path from budding pop star to cult artist to cultural phenom has been both a long slog and an overnight success story.Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Dec. 2024
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Costco members know the sight of a table covered in books for toddlers, kids and adults, but starting in January 2025, Costco's famous table of books will no longer be found at hundreds of the wholesaler's locations, according to reporting from Yahoo Finance and Fox Business.Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024
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The perfect-fit goggles with placement guide enable kids (even toddlers) to see up close.Nora Colomer, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2024
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The team also modeled what a primordial black hole would do to a planet with a liquid core.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2024
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So they were brought together in the smell of all primordial velvets.Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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The Thaw follows Wajda as a widowed detective investigating the murder of a young woman and her newborn, while also coming to terms with the death of her own husband.Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jenna had previously announced the big news with photos of herself holding the newborn.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Some believe — and were trained to think — the disease begins in the germinal center, a structure in the lymph nodes where immune cells interact with antigens in a way that creates a powerful pathogen-fighting response (think vaccines and infections).Isabella Cueto, STAT, 18 June 2022
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But germinal centers did not form in the thoracic lymph nodes and spleens of the autopsied COVID-19 patients, the researchers reported.Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
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“Infant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infant. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.
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