childlike
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Dementia can make patients angry, or placid, or childlike, or even seem to time travel in their minds to where they believe they are children again.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
It’s not a childish place, but it does produce childlike wonder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Naomi told the BBC: "You kind of have a childlike trust because they're the police - they're honest, trustworthy."
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Reviewing the earlier iteration, our critic said the show paints “Moses as more complicated than the cheerful, childlike images her name conjures and as a legitimizer of self-taught art.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Some days she was childlike, whipped her head side to side, when Mariam, then Rasheed, tried to feed her.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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