as in infant
a young child who is just learning to walk
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Recent Examples of toddler
Every toddler sleeping in the stairwells had the right idea.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
The first is the toddler and preschool years, when a child is learning that a parent sees them as a specific person rather than just one of a pair.
—Staff Author, Parents, 13 June 2026
An investigation is underway after a toddler was found dead inside a vehicle in Lower Nazareth Township, Pennsylvania, on Thursday afternoon.
—Stephanie Ballesteros, CBS News, 12 June 2026
The toddler was playing near the edge of the Seven Seas Lagoon with his family when an alligator suddenly emerged from the water and pulled him under.
—Wpec Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2026
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
The first is the toddler and preschool years, when a child is learning that a parent sees them as a specific person rather than just one of a pair.
—Staff Author, Parents, 13 June 2026
An investigation is underway after a toddler was found dead inside a vehicle in Lower Nazareth Township, Pennsylvania, on Thursday afternoon.
—Stephanie Ballesteros, CBS News, 12 June 2026
The toddler was playing near the edge of the Seven Seas Lagoon with his family when an alligator suddenly emerged from the water and pulled him under.
—Wpec Staff, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toddler
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State regulations require specific teacher-to-child ratios, and those ratios become especially demanding with infants and toddlers.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
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During the final weeks of her life, the infant was taken off the top of the transplant list twice due to complications related to her VSD.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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In 1991, the CDC began recommending all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, departing from prior recommendations to vaccinate only newborns whose mothers had tested positive for hepatitis B or were at risk of contracting it.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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Ahead of her newborn's arrival, Josie made a hilarious video with her husband, acting out a scene that Love Island USA season 7 contestant Amaya Espinal said during the show.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
11 Dec. 2025
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In that year in the United States the number of lost kids had dropped to just over two per hundred.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The hotel is appropriate for kids, and, with a registration fee, 3–15-year-olds can participate in a Central Park day camp.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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Colombian rapper Maluma stopped a concert in Mexico City to chastise one of his own fans for bringing her infant to his show and exposing the tyke to high decibel levels.—
Sandra Lilley,
NBC news,
11 Aug. 2025
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These poor tykes grew up on the damp, textured beaches of Connecticut, but were taken mid-life to the golden fields of the prairie by a scientist named Frank Brown.—
Mari Andrew
July 15,
Literary Hub,
15 July 2025
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My younger kiddo loves fruit and yogurt and can pretty much always go for a yogurt parfait.—
Stephanie Ganz,
Parents,
7 June 2026
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The kiddos—who just finished 8th grade and 5th grade, respectively—were also joined by their mother, Shayne, who is Lamas's third child.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
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The younger Iannaccone started as a youngster breading chicken cutlets and baking cookies with his grandmother, then worked with his dad.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2026
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As these 50 million or so American youngsters (about 2 billion globally) begin to make their mark on the culture, Is your marketing department at least as savvy as an 8th grader?—
Greg Petro,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Later that week in November, another source told PEOPLE exclusively that the decision to remove the children from King's custody came after King allegedly gave Ritalin to one of her sons multiple times, even though the child had not been prescribed the medication by a doctor.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
12 Dec. 2025
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The World Food Program provides over 600,000 children a hot meal every day in many schools in Haiti.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
12 Dec. 2025
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There have been publications about nicotine transmission and neonates after blood transfusion.—
Torie Bosch,
STAT,
1 June 2026
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For studies measuring neonates’ looking time at faces, this included 667 infants, half of them boys and half of them girls.—
Lise Eliot,
The Conversation,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Toddler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toddler. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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