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Adjective
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If nothing else is done with those mice, that association will apparently be forgotten later in life due to infantile amnesia.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
21 Mar. 2025 -
The curious case of infantile amnesia The phenomenon of not remembering anything from early childhood is known as infantile amnesia.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Mar. 2025
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The childish use of vulgar profanity simply leads peoople to view the speaker as being unable to express his/her view.—
Letters to the editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2025
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One standout was Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen running around the palace like a childish tyrant.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
26 Mar. 2025
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Starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the sparring, intellectual parents to two adolescent sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline), The Squid and the Whale responds to some of Baumbach’s own experiences as a product of divorce in the 1980s.—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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One of the main jobs of the adolescent human is to pull away from their parents in preparation for adulthood.—
Cyndy Etler,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2025
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Art Across Boundaries Since a young age, Yi Ming has been passionate about the power the visual arts possess to transcend not only philosophical and disciplinary boundaries, but also cultural and national borders.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Under the leadership of veteran head coach Sean Payton and young quarterback Bo Nix, Ware is confident that the Broncos can take the leap from being just a playoff team into an elite one.—
DJ Siddiqi,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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For juvenile whales in particular, who spend more time near the surface and often explore coastal shallows, the risk is acute and growing.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Video footage shared by the Institute shows the nearly one-foot-long juvenile squid floating at a depth of approximately 1968 feet below the waters around the South Sandwich Islands, a volcanic archipelago located between the tip of South America and Antarctica.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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The treatment was derived from human embryonic stem cells, which researchers had coaxed into becoming immature brain cells called neuron progenitors.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
17 Apr. 2025
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Despite her experiences, Ellie is still emotionally immature, seeing independence as its own authority.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Infantilized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infantilized. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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