infantilized

Example Sentences

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
  • If nothing else is done with those mice, that association will apparently be forgotten later in life due to infantile amnesia.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The angular clock hands and classic-leaning clock face protect this personality piece from becoming gimmicky or childish, and instead remaining sophisticated and tasteful.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 31 Mar. 2025
  • See, the issue here isn’t that a college dude did a dumb, childish thing.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Kruger had been an Akin superfan ever since his breakout Head-On — a gritty, violent love story about a young German-Turkish woman trying to break free of her religious, restrictive family — which won Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2004.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • For much younger kids, Little Passports has an Early Explorers box ($20/month) aimed at children as young as 3.
    Adrienne So, Wired News, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • McManus said the boy is also facing charges of terrorism and is currently being held at a local juvenile detention facility.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 15 May 2025
  • The three juvenile suspects are also charged with murder, attempted armed robbery and second-degree burglary.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Many organizations grapple with obstacles such as disconnected data, internal roadblocks, misaligned objectives across teams and immature processes.
    Mithun A. Sridharan, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • And anybody that thinks otherwise is just being foolish and immature and childish.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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