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noun

ˈin-fənt How to pronounce infant (audio)
Definition of infantnext
as in child
a recently born person infants should be kept warm at all times

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infant

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adjective

as in embryonic

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Recent Examples of infant
Noun
After questioning, the infant's father, identified as 19-year-old Ca’Marion Pawnell, was also arrested, according to police. — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 1 July 2026 For example, in 2011, the FDA warned parents, caregivers, and healthcare providers not to feed SimplyThick, a thickening gel, to premature infants fitting a particular profile. — David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Adjective
The narrative pairs her with Sister Ying, a detective investigating a series of infant corpse cases where bodies are discovered sealed in luxury apartment walls. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026 The recall was issued after the FDA identified 83 cases of infant botulism nationwide, with 13 of those having received ByHeart formula at some point. — Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for infant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infant
  1. child
  2. embryonic
  3. baby
  4. budding
  5. newborn
  6. primordial
  7. toddler
  8. germinal
Noun
  • Harry's decision comes amid an ongoing security fiasco concerning the safety of Meghan Markle and their two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 5 July 2026
  • Would her child be buried in a separate part of the cemetery without the appropriate eulogies?
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of child
Adjective
  • One protein called periostin appeared strongly in the shark notochord (a structure that helps organize embryonic development).
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • In the early 2000s, when researchers first began using embryonic stem cells, many institutions added a second review step involving what’s known as a stem cell research oversight (SCRO) committee.
    — Laura Dattaro, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
Definition of embryonic
Noun
  • In the post, Clements shared a candid photo of George breastfeeding her baby boy, alongside shots of her trip through the French countryside and some photos of her older children.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Owens explained that baby copperhead bites — and copperhead bites in general — are rare.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 6 July 2026
Definition of baby
Adjective
  • Following the characters’ daily lives as tweens, the series shows us a much more vulnerable Angelica (Cheryl Chase), and a not-so-bald Tommy’s (Elizabeth Daily) imagination evolving into a budding filmmaking career.
    — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 20 June 2026
  • The camp will let budding designers explore and take the world of fashion to the next level using AI tools.
    — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 15 June 2026
Definition of budding
Noun
  • After Micah’s birth, Lauryn posted a statement on X clarifying that Rohan was not her newborn's father.
    — Julie Tremaine, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • About half of the newborns in the program received a $1,000 grant deposited in an Oklahoma 529 college savings account.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 27 June 2026
Definition of newborn
Adjective
  • Earth-impacting shrapnel from those primordial upheavals may have helped seed our planet with the precursors for life, delivering water and organic compounds from the dark, icy depths of the outer solar system.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
  • At a time when the Earth was bare, when there were no vertebrates, no trees, no leaves, no flowering plants, and no plants with seeds, millipedes were feeding on decaying mosses, decomposed slime, and primordial gunk.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
Definition of primordial
Noun
  • Paramedics took the child to the hospital, where the toddler died, Grace Mariot, a police spokeswoman, said.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026
  • The Folsom Police Department asked for help Saturday after officers found a toddler without their parents.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of toddler
Adjective
  • President Trump’s germinal proposal to extend ObamaCare subsidies has created new headaches for GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.
    — Mike Lillis, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Vaccines combining slow release and follicle targeting of antigens increase germinal center B cell diversity and clonal expansion.
    — Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Definition of germinal

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