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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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That now seemed an infantile idea.—
Chang-rae Lee,
New Yorker,
3 May 2026
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Not for infantile name calling.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Giant, a play about Dahl running on Broadway through June, is anything but childish.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2026
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Garrincha was characterised as childish and moronic in psychological tests commissioned by the Brazilian federation before that tournament in Sweden and was then left out of their first two games.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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Suzanne O’Donnell, an accomplished regional theater actor with a lot of Shakespeare on her resume, plays Penrose as both a warm mothering figure to these two occasionally babyish men but does not downplay the character’s pragmatic side.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2026
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Paige is little more than a dumb blonde stereotype, another underwritten female character in Sheridan’s growing oeuvre, but Chapman laces her babyish whining with surprising bite, while showing a knack for physical comedy.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Rue descends into crime, working with Nazis, the feds, and a Black cowboy in a drug plot that stems from her adolescent foibles with monotone drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly).—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
29 May 2026
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Alicia begins her desperate search for her adolescent son in a wild, unknown territory, confronting her own guilt and fears.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
27 May 2026
Adjective
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The Spurs missed more production from De'Aaron Fox, who turned in an unremarkable performance (seven points), leaving San Antonio to lean heavily on its young core.—
Alejandro Avila,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2026
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Around the same time, Mark and Jacob Iskander, 11 and 8, were with their mother and younger sibling approaching a crosswalk at Triunfo Canyon Road.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
Adjective
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Groups of juvenile sharks were spotted off the South Bay, Long Beach, Huntington Beach and San Clemente during that initial shark surge, hanging out for months at a time.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
30 May 2026
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Investigators gathered information from several sources to identify the Winters juvenile and arranged to contact his parents to make the arrest and seize his e-motorcycle on the evening of May 27, the department said.—
Reeti Malhotra,
Sacbee.com,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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On a blind date, his descriptions of magical griffins and burning deserts sound humiliatingly immature.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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Beckham is charismatic and generally more thoughtful than the perception created by the impulsive or immature decisions that create headlines.—
Dan Duggan,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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