as in babyhood
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The difference back then was that the big social media channels were still in their infancy — United, remember, did not have a Twitter account until July 2013 — or did not exist at all.
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Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
The Greeners had five children, including Belle (two others died in infancy), and, in 1888, settled in New York, where Greener served for several years as an examiner at the Municipal Civil Service Commission and led the effort to raise money to build what is now known as Grant’s Tomb.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
So this window of pregnancy, infancy is when families are the poorest across the entire life course.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2024
The jaunt that covers three time zones and sees the Oilers compete against a team from every division is still in its infancy.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
The Greeners had five children, including Belle (two others died in infancy), and, in 1888, settled in New York, where Greener served for several years as an examiner at the Municipal Civil Service Commission and led the effort to raise money to build what is now known as Grant’s Tomb.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
So this window of pregnancy, infancy is when families are the poorest across the entire life course.
—Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2024
The jaunt that covers three time zones and sees the Oilers compete against a team from every division is still in its infancy.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Infancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infancy. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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