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Noun
The end result is that unprotected infants will likely die from a preventable disease. Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025 Salvation Army The Salvation Army accepts donated basic needs for survivors, from protective clothing items, flashlights, device chargers, infant care items or boxes for people to collect their possessions. James Powel, USA TODAY, 12 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 See all Example Sentences for infant 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infant
Noun
  • Palestinian children gather to receive food aid today in Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Financial Responsibilities: Supporting The Family In one study, more than half of parents surveyed have prioritized giving financial help to their adult children over setting aside money for themselves.
    Paula Thielen, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Putting on the brakes and stepping away refills your dwindling reservoir, replenishes your work mojo and provides an incubation period for embryonic work ideas to hatch.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The Texas Supreme Court is also currently considering taking up a lawsuit over IVF embryo division after a divorce — a case that could allow the court's nine conservative justices to rule on embryonic personhood.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 23 May 2024
Noun
  • Biden, who was in Los Angeles and saw the baby at the hospital, announced the birth at the end of an official briefing on wildfires in Southern California.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
  • These were the size of carnival one-sheets, and full of startling clip-art imagery (a screaming head, a creepy baby in a mobcap) and aggressive block capitals, announcing the circus was back in town.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Sajid’s 20 years of experience as an educator across U.K. universities and workshops plays a large factor in his desire to find new ways to support budding designers.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Calmer moments are depicted; game birds relax beneath pomegranate trees and next to budding roses.
    George Nelson for ArtNews, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Advice for parents of babies and toddlers Joey Kehoe and his 1-year-old daughter Florence barely escaped the fire that destroyed their condo on Palisades Drive.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Sharon Lyles, executive director of the diaper bank, said babies and toddlers left in dirty diapers can develop urinary tract infections and rashes.
    Michael Cuglietta, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • There is a primordial quality to the woods that oscillates between cacophonous forest chatter and eerie silence in the space of a ridge or two.
    Laura Lancaster, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the primary object of Eggers’s vampire’s attention, Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen Hutter, is a victim of a destiny foretold (a scenario that recurs throughout all of Eggers’s films, which strive to push modern, secular mindsets away and immerse viewers in primordial, irrational fears).
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The video, which was not ultimately shown to Lively, featured an image of Heath, his wife, and their newborn after a home birth.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
  • As such, Herod’s massacre would have evoked a familiar Old Testament story in which the Egyptian Pharaoh orders all Jewish newborns to be slaughtered in an effort to kill the infant Moses.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 20 Jan. 2025.

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