infancy
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Raker’s sister Hattie was buried next to her the following year, the child died in infancy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Feelings bubbled up uncontrollably: inconsolable howls in infancy, classroom meltdowns in childhood, rages in adolescence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The analysis included 502 children who were followed from infancy into middle childhood.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
When she said she worked for Amazon, still in its infancy, Canin advised that she try to get stock options.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
I wanted to cry out that she was a baby still, but of course Nathan was right; she had left infancy forever.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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
Some, smitten hearts with the long secrecies, On velvet moss, deep in their bowers' ease, Prattling the love of timid infancies, Are tearing the green bark from the young trees.
From Silverpoints by John Gray
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