babies 1 of 2

noun

plural of baby
1
as in children
a recently born person the baby is just learning to sit up, so be careful

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2
as in men
a member of the human race I don't care what you want, there'll be no more work for this baby today

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3
as in accomplishments
a successful result brought about by hard work a small film that was a labor of love and the baby that the director was proudest of

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4
as in complainers
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things don't be such a baby—the shot didn't hurt that much

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babies

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of baby
as in nurses
to treat with great or excessive care he babied his car, faithfully washing it every week if you baby him he'll never learn to take care of himself

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Recent Examples of babies
Noun
Between the end of summer and the start of fall, usually from the end of August to October, male tarantulas in North America go out in search of eight-legged females to get ready to have babies, according to the National Park Service. — Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026 More and more now, parents were refusing the routine vitamin K shot given to newborns to help their blood clot, and doctors were starting to see babies hemorrhaging because of it. — Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026 Births in Japan have been on a downward trajectory for years and hit an all-time low in the six months between January and June last year when 339,280 babies were born. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026 Lawyers pursuing class-action lawsuits on behalf of babies who would ​be deprived of citizenship ⁠under Trump’s initial order have asked two different federal judges to prevent his latest order from taking effect. — Reuters, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026 For the past 16 years, she’s been able to give back to other premature babies. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026 The average age of people’s first pregnancy is going up, and more people older than age 40 are having babies. — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026 The risks of complications from Covid for pregnant people and their babies, however, is high. — Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026 At least 14 babies at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences died in a nursery fire Wednesday, while one infant was rescued, according to hospital officials. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Verb
Each new piece was crafted to be simple, functional, and beautiful, giving parents peace of mind and babies a nurturing space to grow. — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025 Hummers are the smallest and lightest of birds, some weighing no more than a coin, some babies the size of a bean. — Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for babies
  1. children
  2. men
  3. accomplishments
  4. complainers
  5. nurses
  6. infants
  7. people
  8. successes
Noun
  • At the same time, the house next door to us was sold to a family with six children, ranging in age from newborn to 10 years old.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • During an appearance on Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Sean Hayes‘ podcast SmartLess earlier this month, Bullock opened up about the 2023 death of her partner, Bryan Randall, and how that affected her children.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of children
Noun
  • Steinem then went on to become a freelance journalist in New York during the 1960s — when newsrooms were largely run by men and female reporters were typically restricted in the topics they were allowed to cover.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Two men were arrested in connection with the deaths on Wednesday, in a joint operation involving the State of Mexico Prosecutor’s Office, the federal Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection and the Mexico City Secretariat of Citizen Security.
    — Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of men
Noun
  • It’s often said that great athletes struggle to talk about their sport and their accomplishments.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Sabrina Carpenter will have reason to celebrate her career accomplishments on the Billboard 200 two weeks in a row.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of accomplishments
Noun
  • Are they deluded into thinking that the complainers are just a squeaky wheel minority and the majority of fans are happy with it?
    — Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 13 July 2026
  • However, the Lakers are complainers to begin with and have always gotten a favorable whistle.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026
Definition of complainers
Verb
  • Ultimately, Etna’s closest bond is with the itinerant medic Hong who nurses his emaciated, shrapnel-scarred body.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Rachel dates a shoe store operator named Lou (Bob Hoskins), while Charlotte nurses a crush on her handsome young school bus driver and flirts with Catholicism to the chagrin of her Jewish mother.
    — David Faris, TheWeek, 17 July 2026
Definition of nurses
Noun
  • Another is the contagion risk posed by having an unvaccinated child in a waiting room alongside infants and kids with immunodeficiencies.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026
  • If the mother was not vaccinated, infants younger than 8 months should recieve nirsevimab, which is not a vaccine but a monoclonal antibody shot.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of infants
Noun
  • Another 13 people were wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street and 10th Street, in what became the deadliest mass shooting in the city’s history.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2026
  • Organizers say more than 125,000 people are expected throughout the event, bringing in millions of dollars for the local economy.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 June 2026
Definition of people
Noun
  • Its celebrity pedigree is astonishing (spokespersons and fans include Jane Fonda, Martha Stewart, Andie MacDowell, Heidi Klum, etc), its offerings are robust, and many, if not most of its products, are five-star successes.
    — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Launching an insurance company One of his early successes at Thrive came in 2012 when Kushner launched a health insurer called Oscar that sold coverage directly to individuals in the marketplaces established by the Affordable Care Act.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of successes

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“Babies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/babies. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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