baby
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Jennifer Meyer announces the arrival of her third child, a baby girl, in a sweet Father’s Day post celebrating fiancé Geoff Ogunlesi.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
First-time mum Courtney-Grace says she is relieved her baby daughter, Tine, will have access to the crucial family medical history she lacked when she grew up.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
"These first materials that we have studied are like a baby step, or a prototype problem, along the way to more complex phenomena such as high-temperature superconductors and quantum magnets."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
As a nepo baby, young Michael had entree to the business but also the challenge of establishing his own bona fides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But what she didn’t understand was that I had to take the baby!
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Related: Americans are having fewer babies than ever.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Members of Blur drank mulled wine, singer Myleene Klass handed out jelly babies, and the crowd waited for Beagle 2 to confirm it had landed safely.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In a new study, Northwestern researchers examined all 130,267 babies born in Georgia in 2017 and followed their fathers for the next five years, through 2022.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“This fish hides its babies in its mouth,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Once the babies were wrapped tight in their blankets, I heard the calling of an owl in the front yard.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
He acknowledged that he babied his surgically repaired knee for most of the first half, resulting in a swing that was more tentative and produced more soft contact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025
It also doesn’t include fellow all-star Tony Gonsolin because the Los Angeles Dodgers have so babied his development that he doesn’t have a 20-start season yet.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022
I babied those potatoes so they would not brown.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022
In bitter January temperatures, that range fell closer to 225 miles, no matter how I babied the throttle or dialed back on cabin temps.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022
She petted and babied her, but the look of horror would not go out of Faye’s eyes.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
There was no babying of their baby brother — and no extra protection from parents, either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
But as for the Mariners babying him and not letting him come back, you’d be 100 percent incorrect on this situation.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
But breaking the habit of babying your puppy will prep it for being touched by other people in different situations.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022
“To me, the baseball players, if they stop babying the pitchers — a lot of those guys they’ve come up hitting all their life and they’re really good players,” Del Rio said with a smile.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
Mama held Akira as if he were an infant, his hands around her neck the way he liked to do when Mama felt like babying him.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
