infancy

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Five of her 10 children died in infancy, and both her husband and a grown daughter predeceased her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Although the technology remains in its infancy, there has been tremendous technical progress over the past year alone.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Unlike China, it had failed to institute a sweeping censorship system when the internet was in its infancy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

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

He inquired as to whether I remembered Beth, a fille de chambre at the College in my infancy, though in that time, called Miss 22-05.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson