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Adjective
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Additionally, some dogs, particularly breeds with extreme infantile traits (such as pugs and French bulldogs), may appear as helpless, harmless, and innocent as small children.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
22 May 2025 -
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
Adjective
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There is something of the rat terrier in her small white face, an intensity that has never seemed childish but unnaturally adult.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
17 June 2025
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From baby animals to childish drawings, Labubu to Mary Janes, all things cute have entered the mainstream.—
Gemma A. Williams,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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With its whip-smart satire and adolescent vulnerability, the movie catapulted Williamson into the Hollywood spotlight.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
19 June 2025
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Researchers reviewing camera trap footage from a remote island off Panama found that a group of adolescent capuchin monkeys were routinely kidnapping baby howler monkeys and carrying them around like accessories.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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But the real treat for me was meeting all these young people who are so extraordinary.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
23 June 2025
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Rowan is a funny, playful, and high-spirited young boy who keeps everyone around him smiling.—
MARE Staff,
Boston Herald,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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As summer approaches, a juvenile great white shark named Dold has today been detected off the Long Island coastline, marking the latest milestone in a months-long migration that has taken him up the U.S. East Coast.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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With leadership willing to face hard truths, our state can rebuild a juvenile justice system that is both compassionate and credible.—
Robin Grammer,
Baltimore Sun,
19 June 2025
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After hatching, the immature cicadas or nymphs spend 17 or 13 years underground, feeding on roots, then emerge during the spring and transform into adult cicadas.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
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And babies younger than six months old—who are ineligible for vaccination because of their immature immune system—have the highest rates COVID hospitalization after adults aged 75 and older.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
10 June 2025
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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