as in babyhood
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Recent Examples of infancy
Among babies diagnosed with it, the disease kills 50% of them by early infancy.
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Keerthana Pakanati, ABC News, 15 May 2025
Jarrow's case stems back to the infancy of the pandemic.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
The museum, still in its infancy, is effectively left out of Trump’s proposed 2026 budget.
—Vivienne Serret, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Travel planning for Continuum residents is in its infancy, but increasingly on the rise.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Keerthana Pakanati, ABC News, 15 May 2025
Jarrow's case stems back to the infancy of the pandemic.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
The museum, still in its infancy, is effectively left out of Trump’s proposed 2026 budget.
—Vivienne Serret, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
Travel planning for Continuum residents is in its infancy, but increasingly on the rise.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infancy
adolescence
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His public defender, Amy Smith, during his sentencing detailed a childhood and adolescence fraught with abuse and poverty.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
14 June 2025
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During his adolescence, the sensibility among the youth was to turn away from the gentility of the race man and toward the existential and the militant.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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“Infancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infancy. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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