childlike

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's 11-year-old daughter, North West, has also forged the beginnings of a music career, recently delivering a rap verse in Japanese on FKA Twigs' single Childlike Things.

From BBC • May 2, 2025

"Childlike" is something else, and the obsessions and anxieties of tweens boomerang right back to all of us, making the quest to eradicate the visual signals of adulthood turn creepy, fast.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2024

Childlike openness, curiosity and inner calm appear to be driving principles behind the curators’ thinking.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

Childlike wonder bounds across the seven-song project, from the Dr. Seuss-themed title to the bubbly synths and references to Silly Bandz.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2022

Taking things as fated merely, Childlike though the world ye spanned; Nor holding unto life too dearly, Ye who held your lives in hand— Skimmers, who on oceans four Petrels were, and larks ashore.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman