PREMIES Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

preemies

noun

variants also premies

plural of preemie

as in infants

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Noun

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
If the mother was not vaccinated, infants younger than 8 months should recieve nirsevimab, which is not a vaccine but a monoclonal antibody shot.

— Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of infants

Noun

Last week, a reporter for the Atlantic interviewed the parents of the newborn.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026
More and more now, parents were refusing the routine vitamin K shot given to newborns to help their blood clot, and doctors were starting to see babies hemorrhaging because of it.

— Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of newborn

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

Noun

Between the end of summer and the start of fall, usually from the end of August to October, male tarantulas in North America go out in search of eight-legged females to get ready to have babies, according to the National Park Service.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
More and more now, parents were refusing the routine vitamin K shot given to newborns to help their blood clot, and doctors were starting to see babies hemorrhaging because of it.

— Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of babies

Noun

But in late July, the Wittes told families Nova Roots was closing, leaving them scrambling to enroll their children elsewhere.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2026
Clancy, who was accused of murdering her three children in January 2023, has been in the national spotlight the last few weeks as her trial was live-streamed.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of children

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