infancy
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Symptoms may first emerge during infancy, childhood, or adulthood, and their severity and progression can differ depending on when the condition begins.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
He also recommends white cotton for clothing worn directly against the skin, but cautions that research into cotton dyes is in its infancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Enzo Maresca seemingly took on an impossible job in the summer when replacing the legendary Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, but is making it look an easy task in the infancy of his tenure.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The author, an Icelandic medievalist now based in Norway, takes the reader on a journey through the lives of her subjects from infancy to the grave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
He insists there should have been complete compensation in the undamaged part of my cerebral cortex, and that my dragging right side is merely holding on to a habit it learned in infancy.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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We drank Diet Coke through grad school, made sure it was well-stocked at our wedding, painfully restricted our intake through two pregnancies, and only survived two sleepless infancies by the grace of DC.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2021
With these programs in their infancies, it’s difficult to determine their effectiveness just yet.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2013
Officials in Washington and Boston said that even in their programs’ infancies, they never encountered station failures like New York’s or widespread difficulties with docking.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2013
Pincus also invested in Napster, Facebook, Twitter and Friendster, all of which appeared to be risky in their infancies.
From Reuters ● Dec. 11, 2011
The analogy between these two infancies seems to exist chiefly in words; it is not easy to gratify a child's curiosity concerning the infancy of the world.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Maria Edgeworth
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