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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 more childish and unrefined, the better.—
Maddie Connors,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Child actor Jax James has been set in the series regular role of Dougie, Maureen’s only son who is not even ten but acts like a 60-year-old scholar and has no time for childish fancies.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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
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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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Some of her adolescent outbursts and antics (that were so delicious to play).—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
29 Mar. 2026
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Any full-length conversation between Tua Tagovailoa and his adolescent self would, eventually, disclose details of the dark days.—
Daniel Flick - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
AJC.com,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In the 19th, Grace Panetta studied the answers in another Navigator focus group, from young women worried about economic ups and downs.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Panthers have hinted at the desire to draft a young QB to develop behind Young for the long haul, and that outlook hasn’t changed with the arrival of Pickett.—
Mike Kaye
March 26,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Over a two-year period, researchers at the Shark Lab used drones to study more than two dozen beaches up and down the California coastline and found juvenile white sharks congregating at two spots in southern Santa Barbara County and central San Diego County.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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The two offenders were sentenced to two years of probation and 60 hours of community service each − one hour for each victim, Judge Leonard Brown said − meaning they will not be put into a juvenile detention facility, while technically remaining under the supervision of the juvenile justice system.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Yet this widely available gourd—harvested and eaten while still immature, in fact, for ripe cucumbers are yellow and bitter—is not the entirety of the plant.—
Andrés Muedano,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Mar. 2026
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Preterm and low-birth-weight babies are at higher risk than full-term babies of developing NEC, potentially because of their immature digestive systems, according to the National Institutes of Health.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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