infancy
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The company said almost all of that figure would come from its artificial intelligence business, which was — and is — in its relative infancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
As a child at his church's daycare center, James Talarico would intervene to break up fights, according to the pastor who has known him since infancy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Symptoms may first emerge during infancy, childhood, or adulthood, and their severity and progression can differ depending on when the condition begins.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Ms. Li’s novel about the vanity of artistic glory charts John’s youth as he is trained from infancy to be “the next Mozart.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
From infancy, he had some kind of hernia condition which was to handicap him physically for the rest of his life.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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We drank Diet Coke through grad school, made sure it was well-stocked at our wedding, painfully restricted our intake through two pregnancies, and only survived two sleepless infancies by the grace of DC.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2021
With these programs in their infancies, it’s difficult to determine their effectiveness just yet.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2013
Officials in Washington and Boston said that even in their programs’ infancies, they never encountered station failures like New York’s or widespread difficulties with docking.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2013
Pincus also invested in Napster, Facebook, Twitter and Friendster, all of which appeared to be risky in their infancies.
From Reuters ● Dec. 11, 2011
We have here an excellent example of his whimsical blending of truth and invention: brothers and sisters he denies, yet admits one sister, Elizabeth, who died in both their infancies.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
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