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

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

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

Europeans in those days tended to view children as moving straight from infancy to adulthood around the age of seven, and often thereupon sent them out to work.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann