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childless

ADJECTIVE
barren
Synonyms


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Also read: We’re in our 70s and childless.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

British columnist Zoe Williams wondered in The Guardian how she would feel to receive such a letter from "childless" President Emmanuel Macron.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

Robert is single and childless and has lost track of how many times he’s been asked about his wife and kids by people who thought they were talking to me.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Over two months of filming in Atwater Village and Silver Lake, we were portrayed as a carefree, childless couple.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

If I am and the SIM find out, they’ll make me carry it to full term, then give it to some childless general’s wife like the story Magdalena told me.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez



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