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childless

ADJECTIVE
barren
Synonyms


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

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

I arrived at “Bluey’s Best Day Ever!” as a childless columnist, and yet I came away enchanted by what Disneyland’s live entertainment team, led by Susana Tubert, had concocted.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 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

Robert is single and childless and has lost track of how many times he’s been asked about his wife and kids by people who thought they were talking to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

She knew that his wife had died childless, and that he had always wanted a son—he was praying still, he told her, that God would bless him with a son.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin



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