as in child
a recently born person
infants should be kept warm at all times
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Recent Examples of infant
Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 12 Mar. 2025
Zinc oxide is a key ingredient in most infant diaper creams so its ultra gentle.
—Bea McMonagle, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Jamey Keaten, Fortune, 9 July 2025
The impact of the massive spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law on Independence Day is expected to filter down to infants and toddlers — a segment of the population that is particularly vulnerable to cuts to the federal social safety net.
—Moriah Balingit, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
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Noun
The flashpoint was the hospital’s role in a child protection case involving the infant grandson of one of Bundy’s friends.
—Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 12 Mar. 2025
Zinc oxide is a key ingredient in most infant diaper creams so its ultra gentle.
—Bea McMonagle, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives — nearly all in Africa — each year.
—Jamey Keaten, Fortune, 9 July 2025
The impact of the massive spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law on Independence Day is expected to filter down to infants and toddlers — a segment of the population that is particularly vulnerable to cuts to the federal social safety net.
—Moriah Balingit, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infant
Noun
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The Elmore County Sheriff’s Office and Elmore County paramedics responded to a call at 1:47 p.m. Saturday about an object piercing a windshield and injuring a child, the Sheriff’s Office said Monday in a news release.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
14 July 2025
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Around this time, a person broke a window and successfully rescued a child from the home while flames began to spread, police said.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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The key regions for imprinting are methylated differently in males and females, which influences nearby gene activity and can be maintained throughout all of embryonic development.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2025
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Female cats have two X-chromosomes, one of which is randomly inactivated early in embryonic development on a cell-by-cell basis (figures 1 & 2), giving rise to tortoiseshell or calico fur color patterns.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Changes to Medicaid Texas' Medicaid population tends to be children, pregnant people or people who have had a baby less than 12 months ago, seniors in nursing homes or people with disabilities who are unable to work.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
1 Aug. 2025
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The nonprofit focuses on the health of babies and mothers and monitors the ease of access to maternal care services.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Iris and Isaac’s idyll is interrupted by the enemy of all great budding romances: the truth.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
23 July 2025
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Other modes of delivery have included sled dogs, mules, reindeer and hovercraft, but the agency’s most transformative upgrade occurred in 1918 with the development of airmail at a time when airports were still a budding concept.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
23 July 2025
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Some of the parents who say their toddlers were abused by employees at Parker-Chase Preschool in Roswell, about an hour north of Atlanta, were in the courtroom Monday waiting to voice their opposition to the pretrial diversion deals when Carnesale recused herself instead.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
22 July 2025
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In 1942, the mother of a toddler was given a shocking order: She was told that her child must be sent to a detention facility without her.—
Sacha Pfeiffer,
NPR,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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Tour the Lord of the Rings film sets in New Zealand New Zealand’s dramatic natural landscapes tell their own history, dating back to primordial times when volcanic activity sculpted a setting that looks like nowhere else on Earth.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 July 2025
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Uneasy strings soundtrack a creature’s tentative first steps out of the primordial sea, and intense, dissonant horns blare as a T. rex engages in an epic battle with a powerful planet eater.—
James Grebey,
Vulture,
23 July 2025
Noun
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The dead included a newborn who was delivered in a complex surgery after his mother, who was seven months pregnant, was killed in a strike, according to the Nasser Hospital.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Chicago Tribune,
28 July 2025
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In the first image, the newborn’s tiny foot is gently cradled by what appears to be both Pons and Guaynaa.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
27 July 2025
Adjective
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Vaccines combining slow release and follicle targeting of antigens increase germinal center B cell diversity and clonal expansion.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 June 2025
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That’s the germinal disc and an indication the egg is fertile.—
Joan Morris,
The Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Infant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infant. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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