infancy

While agentic commerce is still in its infancy, Hoffmeister is seeing early positive trends.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

Drawing on evidence she stated that the department had begun outsourcing its backlog, but that this was in its infancy.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Feelings bubbled up uncontrollably: inconsolable howls in infancy, classroom meltdowns in childhood, rages in adolescence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Modern computing was in its infancy, still used only by corporations and the military, or other huge government operations.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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