infant
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The moment when the couple’s infant child is taken from them by the authorities is devastating, each of them capturing a sense of helpless isolation from themselves, their community and each other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Remarkably, the chemical signatures surrounding these infant galaxies looked similar to those found around far more mature galaxies billions of years later.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
For the last 31 years, it has been headed by King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who was once known as a "boy king", after ascending to the throne as an infant.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
A highlight: watching Tinkerbell sprinkle pixie dust on his infant twins during an evening parade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
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After the state health department announced the first two deaths - both in infants - Kennedy, the top health official, took to social media to dispute at least one of the deaths.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The death follows those of two infants in the state’s Lancaster County in mid-August amid a growing measles outbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
He is in the middle of a public spat with Pennsylvania officials, including Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, after the state health department reported two measles-associated deaths involving infants.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
On my boat, a packed, three-deck pleasure cruise otherwise populated by swimsuit-clad tourists and screaming infants, the story was much the same.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
He and his wife, Mabel, had two daughters who lived into their eighties and two sons who died as infants.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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