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Recent Examples of infantilized
When one friend is habitually the payer, others may feel grateful, indebted, infantilized or even relieved.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Del Toro presents Oscar Isaac’s Frankenstein and Elordi’s Creature less as equals terrorizing each other and more as an abusive father and neglected son, a dynamic that keeps the Creature in a sort of infantilized state.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Del Toro presents Oscar Isaac’s Frankenstein and Elordi’s Creature less as equals terrorizing each other and more as an abusive father and neglected son, a dynamic that keeps the Creature in a sort of infantilized state.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infantilized
Adjective
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Among them was a treatment option for infantile hypophosphatasia, a rare form of rickets that makes children’s bones dangerously fragile.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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This suggests that the immune system may be involved in infantile amnesia.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The queen—blond, leggy, wearing dark glasses and a red flapper dress—lounges on an armchair while ministers in suits delight their childish king by dancing with him, turning him and his big belly in cartwheels and the like.—
Jennifer Homans,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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Hence the childish clown imagery in an era before coulrophobia was widely talked about.—
Fielding Buck,
Oc Register,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Teddy’s babyish voice pipes up from the back seat.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Haynes, who has lived in South Florida since 1993 and trained in child and adolescent trauma after Hurricane Andrew, said resilience is as much a part of the Iranian story as suffering.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
1 Mar. 2026
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Derry Girls, which followed teens in McGee’s native Derry in the years preceding 1998’s Good Friday Agreement, was a raucous, joke-dense show that juxtaposed mundane adolescent rites of passage with the daily horrors of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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These are the growing number of young men who are dropouts, do not work or have meaningful or fulfilling jobs, do not marry, have no children, few friends, and live in the basement of their parents’ home.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
26 Feb. 2026
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Gentry Academy is a young program, which earned its own championship — in Class A — in its lone state appearance in 2021.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In this case, the teen will remain in juvenile detention for around 18 to 30 months.—
Conor Wight,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Sheriff Garry McFadden will not put forward a budget request to the county to reopen Charlotte’s former juvenile jail, according to emails between County Manager Mike Bryant and a state official.—
Ryan Oehrli
February 27,
Charlotte Observer,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Boycotting a State of the Union is immature and inappropriate.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Feb. 2026
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Edamame are young, immature soybeans.—
Amy Brownstein,
Verywell Health,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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