baby
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The baby boom has led to an unwanted art boom, Scott Bessent is saving the yen, and weather apps are preventing you from having fun.
From Slate ● Aug. 8, 2026
The youngest of the baby boomers are turning 62 this year—eligible for Social Security retirement benefits—while there is a low supply of younger, U.S.-born workers to take their place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
First is the ongoing retirement of baby boomers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
One of the most insane things she’s done for me is give me a fake baby, one that was heavy and realistic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Maggie smiled as the baby bison skipped—no, hopped.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“This was done right after the Civil War. This was for the babies of slaves,” Trump said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Dalziel notes that acetaminophen and ibuprofen are among the medicines most often prescribed or purchased over the counter for babies around the world.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Declining enrollment in California public schools is spawning a new and growing partnership that is helping to keep child-care centers in business — vacant classrooms are being filled with toddlers and babies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The serious birth defect affects one in 3,000 UK babies each year.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Who’d send a bunch of babies in a time machine?” he asked scornfully.
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
She babied him, ignored him, teased him—did anything she felt like, and he was grateful just to see her do anything or be any way.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
“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
But as for the Mariners babying him and not letting him come back, you’d be 100 percent incorrect on this situation.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
But breaking the habit of babying your puppy will prep it for being touched by other people in different situations.
From Fox News ● Mar. 23, 2022
Ray sucked his teeth, like she was babying me.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
