infantilized

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantilized
Adjective
  • For a long time, infantile amnesia was thought to be tied to an inability to make memories in infancy.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The curious case of infantile amnesia The phenomenon of not remembering anything from early childhood is known as infantile amnesia.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • See, the issue here isn’t that a college dude did a dumb, childish thing.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
  • And anybody that thinks otherwise is just being foolish and immature and childish.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • One of a handful of practicing physicians in the state legislature, Weber Pierson is leaning heavily on her experience as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist who treats children with reproductive birth defects — one of only two in Southern California.
    Kaiser Health News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • The teenage triggerman was aiming at an adolescent rival who had punched him moments earlier, police said.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Aiming to better understand the sentiments of young American consumers today, Credit Karma’s survey, conducted by The Harris Poll, polled more than 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and older from April 7 to 9.
    Alexandra Pastore, Footwear News, 5 May 2025
  • And this week, younger sister Dory (Melissa Roxburgh) delivered Colter a file box full of Dad’s research on zero point energy — a box that’d previously been left with Lizzy’s mom, a former colleague with whom Ashton had an extramarital affair.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • Both Mike and Harriet were juvenile commissioners assigned by the city of San Francisco to mentor boys and girls.
    Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley, CBS News, 4 May 2025
  • Leshem, a former journalist, locked himself in an Israeli juvenile prison for two weeks (for research).
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • This doesn’t sound like their mess to clean up, and just sounds a bit immature/entitled.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Children and adults pick up an avalanche of unreliable information on social media, and children may process it with immature judgment.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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