childless

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Also read: We’re in our 70s and childless.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

British columnist Zoe Williams wondered in The Guardian how she would feel to receive such a letter from "childless" President Emmanuel Macron.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

Of all the figures Ms. Stalnaker discusses, Deffand was the most stalwart in facing oblivion—she was a childless woman who had published nothing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

In those states, Medicaid eligibility was extended to childless adults for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025

In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt