infancy

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The Good Friday Agreement had been signed just five years earlier and the Northern Ireland peace process was in relative infancy.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

The immune system and metabolism develop in infancy, and the microbiome plays a critical role.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Researchers analyzed scans from more than 4,200 people from infancy to 90 years old and found several key periods of development including one from age nine to 32, which they coined the “adolescent” period.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026

Artificial intelligence may still be in its infancy, but this mainstay of the stock market rally now has investors worried it will be its downfall.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

There were possibly other children who died in infancy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin