as in child
a recently born person
infants should be kept warm at all times
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Recent Examples of infant
Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
He’s born to drums, so he was nurtured as a baby, when his father recited rhythms in his ear as an infant.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024
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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Julia Mejia had a simple goal that drove her and infant daughter Sophia to attend a rally to launch a new program designed to address a complex problem of hopelessness many mothers and children experience in North Nashville.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
He’s born to drums, so he was nurtured as a baby, when his father recited rhythms in his ear as an infant.
—Gary Graff, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2024
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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Also going into effect Jan. 1 is Senate Bill 3232, which requires hospitals to provide parents who relinquished a newborn infant with contact information of the child welfare agency that received custody of the relinquished infant.Catrina Barker | The Center Square contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile Alabama will offer tax credits to businesses that help employees with child care costs.David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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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
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Mount and Fernandes’ partnership as false nines is in its embryonic stages and the success of Ten Hag’s approach is dependent on every player fulfilling their role in the system, not just the front two.Mark Critchley, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
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Those who would feel the deepest losses are not the Congress members who will retain their pay during the shutdown, but members of the military who would serve without pay, numerous federal workers who would be furloughed, people that rely on WIC benefits to keep their babies fed and so many more.Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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Ed, as the film reveals, was miraculously spared from the incinerator; an unknown number of babies born to girls attending the school did not escape that grim fate – discarded with the knowledge or at the direction of Catholic clergy who ran the school.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
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His budding music career, however, shouldn't keep him from continuing to act.David Wysong, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2024
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Starring budding Scream King Kyle Gallner (Smile 2, Scream) and a powerhouse, career-best turn from Willa Fitzgerald (The Fall of the House of Usher), Strange Darling manages to subvert expectations with every twisty turn.EW Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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LaFleur acted as if every play was the biggest of his life, repeatedly fought with officials, whipped off his headset, and jumped up and down like a spoiled toddler.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The eatery was casual enough to make the parents of a toddler (and the toddler herself) feel comfortable, while the cuisine was still refined.Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2024
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This is all mirrored by wordless sequences depicting the Simpson family’s prehistoric ancestors, rendered in an entirely different animation style that calls to mind cave etchings, as well as primordial Simpsons designs.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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The team also modeled what a primordial black hole would do to a planet with a liquid core.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 5 Dec. 2024
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Following the birth of her niece, Jing returns to Singapore for the newborn’s birthday celebration.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2024
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Sullivan added that the newborns even soothe each other if one of them is fussy.Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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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 4 Jan. 2025.
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