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infancy

noun as in babyhood

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With the Dodgers on the verge of etching their legacy with a possible third title in six years, this baby boom of sorts may be in its infancy.

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The oil and gas industry has benefited from tax subsidies dating back more than a century, when the US tax code was in its infancy.

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One of her earliest memories of food dates back to her infancy spent in Cameroon, when her mother fed her bowls of dal chawal, or lentils and rice.

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"Caves contain lead, so they were all contaminated. Based on the tooth enamel studies, it started very early in infancy."

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The most complex element of the performance, Del Toro believes, is playing “nothing,” meaning the blank, pure state of mind of a living being in infancy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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