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Recent Examples of tot
The cafeteria floors — still sticky from a thousand juice box spills and the great tater-tot avalanche of last Tuesday — get a scrub worthy of a surgical ward.
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Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
Years ago when our son was just a tot, my wife organized an Easter egg hunt for the neighborhood kids.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
Kushner also shared a photo with more than just a glimpse of the tot, wrapped in a hospital blanket and wearing a pink hat.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Last month, a man in Chicago stole a vehicle with a 7-month-old child inside, then abandoned the vehicle in the sweltering heat with the tot inside.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
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Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
Years ago when our son was just a tot, my wife organized an Easter egg hunt for the neighborhood kids.
—Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
Kushner also shared a photo with more than just a glimpse of the tot, wrapped in a hospital blanket and wearing a pink hat.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
Last month, a man in Chicago stole a vehicle with a 7-month-old child inside, then abandoned the vehicle in the sweltering heat with the tot inside.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tot
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In fact, a handful hadn't even graduated from middle school yet — and one was a toddler!—
Diana Pearl,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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The toddler danced around, incapable of containing his energy.—
Maeva Bambuck,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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Cyrus's fiancé, Maxx Morando, who walked the carpet with the pop star, was slightly more casual.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
2 Feb. 2026
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But the Icelandic jazz-pop hybrid had more on her mind than just celebrating.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
2 Feb. 2026
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There are two scenes that show the transformation of main characters into the Tin Man and the Scarecrow, and while the more harrowing stuff is seen in flashes or close-ups, there’s still some unnerving body horror that could give tykes nightmares.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
20 Nov. 2025
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An inspiring 60-second spot from Pampers features an array of wee tykes, all being comforted or protected by the popular Procter & Gamble diaper.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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Guo says the approach can be scaled up to much larger sizes suitable for load-bearing platforms.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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There are loads of cool details hidden throughout the set, too, with refuelling pipes and a moving bridge that connects the tower to the Orion module.—
Ian Stokes,
Space.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Those groups include pregnant people, older adults, infants and toddlers and people with risks of serious disease.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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First responders said the grandmother, who is in her 60s, and the infant, who is about 10 months old, both suffered head trauma.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Some of the sensory tools in our bins that my daughter especially enjoyed are poppers, slug fidgets, pushpeel sensory boards, and an expanding breathing ball.—
Sara Rowe Mount,
Parents,
3 Feb. 2026
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Its gritty texture helps repel pests like slugs and snails from your garden.—
Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano,
The Spruce,
25 Jan. 2026
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After the newborn was out, Bellisario said she was relieved to hear her daughter cry.—
Ariana Quihuiz,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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The reason experts recommend that newborns get the vitamin K shot is because they are born with very little of it in their bodies.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
27 Jan. 2026
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Tools hang from peg-board walls.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Swoosh has Valentine’s Day and the NBA-All-Star Game as just a few of its time pegs for the month ahead, the latter of which will bring some of its biggest releases of the early year.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Tot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tot. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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