infancy
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The World Wide Web was still in its infancy, but thanks to the NeXT, the intelligence community essentially had its own functioning internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
While the business of cosmetically modified, futuristic-looking pets remains in its infancy, animal rights groups worry that eventually the creatures will be created, sold and later discarded in crowded municipal shelters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The website would go on to attract 8 million hits a day at a time when the internet was still in its relative infancy.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
It rises quickly during infancy and reaches a high point at about age 1 year.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
And Billy zoomed back in time to his infancy.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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
A sister, I think, that should have been Elizabeth, died in both our infancies.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
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