infants

noun

plural of infant
as in children
a recently born person infants should be kept warm at all times

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Recent Examples of infants Ninety-two of the infants were first exposed to the pain medicine in utero before 17 weeks of pregnancy, 67 were first exposed after 17 weeks, and 143 were born to mothers who had not used the drug. — Nancy Lapid, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026 More than 400 of the chimpanzees had been used by American researchers in Liberia in the hepatitis B vaccine experiments from the 1970s until the early 2000s, Ricote said, many of them captured in the wild as infants. — ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026 Amish lethal microcephaly is a genetic condition that causes infants to be born with smaller than normal heads and underdeveloped brains. — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 Another is the contagion risk posed by having an unvaccinated child in a waiting room alongside infants and kids with immunodeficiencies. — Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026 Vaccines against the illness reduce its hospitalization rate among adults older than age 65 by 31 percent and cut deaths among infants and children by 80 percent, according to the group’s research review for these shots. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026 Separately, the pediatricians recommend a vaccine-like medication for high-risk infants. — Lauran Neergaard, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026 New parents are also increasingly declining a Vitamin K injection for their infants. — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Officials were in contact with the families, according to Kamal, who said the immediate priority was to support the parents and return the infants' bodies to them. — CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infants
  1. children
  2. babies
  3. toddlers
  4. kids
Noun
  • Many were founded on the idea that children should not be imprisoned with adults but still needed discipline, reform and punishment.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
  • Biggart rarely discussed it, though the experience announced itself whenever his children approached fireworks or open flames.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of children
Noun
  • Each name represents a life and a story, from the longtime captain in charge to the police officer turned firefighter and the father who had twin babies at home.
    — Dan Krauth, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Our largest launch came in February 2026, when Rx Kids expanded its reach to over 7,500 babies born each year in Detroit.
    — Mona Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of babies
Noun
  • The free meals program aims to combat malnutrition and reduce childhood stunting by providing meals to nearly 90 million students, toddlers and pregnant women.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The initiative feeds toddlers and pregnant women as well as students.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of toddlers
Noun
  • The passage about the group of hippies going out to the pueblo and giving the Native kids LSD and hooking up on the tribe’s sacred ground until they get run off is priceless.
    — Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Each year, Kenny Wilson and her husband pile their two kids into the car and drive hours from her Texas home to a cruise port in Galveston.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of kids

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“Infants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infants. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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