as in child
a recently born person
infants should be kept warm at all times
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Recent Examples of infant
Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Many of them wear masks, and a few of them hold infant children.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2025
Dallas News, 17 May 2022
The Sturgis plant closed in February after regulators launched an investigation into possible links between formula produced there and a series of infant bacterial infections and two deaths.
—Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Noun
Meanwhile, Nestlé grew its baby food business by acquiring Pfizer’s infant nutrition business for $11.85 billion in 2012
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Few, if any, companies have been as busy riding the M&A bandwagon as Mars, whose takeover of Kellanova is hardly their first rodeo.
—Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Many of them wear masks, and a few of them hold infant children.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
Arnaout warned against attempting to make formula at home, because commercial formulas are specially designed for infant nutritional needs.
—Dallas News, 17 May 2022
The Sturgis plant closed in February after regulators launched an investigation into possible links between formula produced there and a series of infant bacterial infections and two deaths.
—Zachary Snowdon Smith, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infant
Noun
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The San Francisco cliffside home where comedian and actor Robin Williams and his then-wife Marsha Garces Williams raised their three children has sold for $18.1 million.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
28 Jan. 2025
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The Hindu family, in other words, will not be coerced into sending their children to the Lutheran school in the sense that they will be tossed into jail if their kids go to the secular school.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In those moments that might seem empty and needless, strategies and solutions that have been there all along in some embryonic form are given space to come to life.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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The old president is impotent, the new president is embryonic, Congress is inert, and the press has one eye on the mistletoe.—
Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
16 Dec. 2024
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In 2007, its baby cereal product was recalled due to possible choking hazards.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 Feb. 2025
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Baby Gear According to Schoen, donating your strollers and baby swings may work for smaller organizations (call first to confirm) but places like Goodwill and the Salvation Army can’t accept them.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
2 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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That surprising move not only dashed Storm's dreams of winning millions of dollars, but also cut short his budding showmance with Maria-Grace Cook.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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But, inside a federal courthouse in Brooklyn this week, the focus wasn’t squarely on Anthony’s legendary basketball career that spanned 19 seasons in the NBA, or even his budding post-retirement exploits.—
Melanie Anzidei,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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As a toddler, Mari was envious of her siblings’ green cards.—
Araceli Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
4 Feb. 2025
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There was a blending of worlds for Billy's fifth birthday as the toddler apparently had a Pikachu/Spiderman cake for his birthday.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Scientists theorized that the asteroid contained traces of water and organic molecules and that similar asteroids could have brought these materials to a primordial Earth.—
Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
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Colossal has established a flock of Nicobar pigeons, the dodo’s closest living relative, which will act as donors for primordial germ cells that will be genetically edited to have dodo characteristics.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Beatrice shared a sweet photo of her newborn wrapped in a blanket with her hand over her face, in a nod to her respect for her child's privacy.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, shortages of antibacterial materials can increase the risk of sepsis, pneumonia, and meningitis among newborns, Maram Al Shurafa, an aid worker for the NGO, Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) in Gaza, told CNN.—
Ibrahim Dahman,
CNN,
28 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Some believe — and were trained to think — the disease begins in the germinal center, a structure in the lymph nodes where immune cells interact with antigens in a way that creates a powerful pathogen-fighting response (think vaccines and infections).—
Isabella Cueto,
STAT,
18 June 2022
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But germinal centers did not form in the thoracic lymph nodes and spleens of the autopsied COVID-19 patients, the researchers reported.—
Jon Cohen,
Science | AAAS,
25 Aug. 2020
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“Infant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infant. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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