childlike
Example Sentences
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It is easy to laugh at the childlike naiveté of sending seeds to Mars, an idea that never germinated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
It’s a source of both elemental mystery and childlike wonder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
In her tiny apartment in South Korea, where she lives alone, 78-year-old Bang Chun-ja spends her days with a childlike AI-powered doll she says she prefers to people.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The palace added: "With her childlike perspective, her irony, her tenderness, and her inner demons, the author created a deeply moving world with which readers identified."
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Though the men of the Seven Kingdoms might call them the children of the forest, Leaf and her people were far from childlike.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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