infancy

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

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

Leigh syndrome is a rare metabolic condition that affects the brain and muscles, usually appearing in infancy or early childhood.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

In an interview with BBC World Service, Anel Rashkaj, Kosovo's captain in that 0-0 draw with Haiti, explained what it was like playing for the nation in its infancy.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

His linguistic gifts and poetic sensibility for the English language, then in its infancy, gave his translation a vibrancy, immediacy, charm and clarity that have never been matched.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

He also had his duties as district mathematician, and he soon remarried, a young woman of 24 who bore him six children, three of whom died in infancy.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin