infant

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After stonewalling every adult who tells him to open up, Robby does just that with an orphaned infant, saying that he, too, was abandoned by his mother as a child.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Shares suffered their worst single-day drop in more than two decades as management acknowledged ongoing struggles in Abbott’s nutrition division, which includes brands like Similac infant formula and Ensure nutrition supplements.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

The child had been infected as an infant when they were too young to be vaccinated, and years later developed subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, or SSPE, a fatal disease that targets the brain.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Studies after that conflict concluded the damage hampered efforts to purify water and contributed to infant mortality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The portrait, in the style of Gainsborough, showed an aristocratic family—parents, two teenage girls and an infant, all thin-lipped, and pale as ghouls—posed before a vaguely Tuscan landscape.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan