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baby

[bay-bee] / ˈbeɪ bi /






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His “Radio Nurse” of 1937, a Bakelite early baby monitor designed for the Zenith Radio Corporation, mounted its loudspeaker in an abstract streamlined head that might have been modeled by Brancusi, his teacher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

The Tramp becomes the unwitting adoptive father of a baby whose mother abandons him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

Start with the gravely voice that rumbles and mumbles, make your eyes as heavy-lidded as possible, add a swaggering shoulder roll and then just brood, baby, brood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

“The trend also highlights the generational transfer of wealth that is starting to occur among the silent generation and baby boomers into the pockets of the next generation,” she added.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

But there was no insulating the sounds: the wail of a baby, the din of radios, the angry words of a family quarrel.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The group included 23 women, two babies and two other children, and were from Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Nigeria, according to police.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

The Facebook post said: "Women and babies deserve safe, local care, and closing units is not the answer."

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

A proposed trial of a hepatitis B vaccine on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau has been cancelled following accusations that the trial was "unethical" and "neocolonial".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Research from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory found that over 70% of care proceedings involving babies in England were emergency hearings within two days of an application being made.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

“And, if we do what you want, we’d have to go back to being babies again?” a voice said quietly from the crowd.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

It also doesn’t include fellow all-star Tony Gonsolin because the Los Angeles Dodgers have so babied his development that he doesn’t have a 20-start season yet.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2022

He’s done so, supposedly, to care for Ginny, 34, who has Down syndrome but doesn’t want to be babied.

From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022

I babied those potatoes so they would not brown.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2022

He and his collaborator, marine biologist Greg Rouse of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, babied the sensitive creatures, which require a constant supply of fresh seawater laden with the microbes they eat.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 27, 2021

“Look, if you wanted to be babied, you should have asked Peeta.”

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

“I was babying it, like fine china,” says the Melbourne, Australia, resident.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

“Committing to throwing it, not really babying it. Not trying to shape it, just throwing it, and trusting how its going to come out.”

From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

There was no babying of their baby brother — and no extra protection from parents, either.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Choosing climate-adapted plants also means you’ll save on your water bill, as well as time spent babying or replacing plants.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

“Oh, stop babying him. He's nearly an adult.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely


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