babyhood
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Osterberg courted Britain's middle and upper classes for her college, deciding most elementary school girls were "absolutely unfit to be trained... their muscles have been starved from babyhood".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
But at 3, my son still wears diapers and has the soft cheeks of babyhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
When children first come to school, they step out of the private world of babyhood and family.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
Macon is known familiarly as Milkman, a bitter nickname stemming from the widespread knowledge that his unhappy, neurasthenic mother, “the daughter of the richest Negro doctor in town,” breast-fed him long past babyhood.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
She had left babyhood far behind, and she was not capable yet of being one of the grownups she admired.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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