as in youth
the state or time of being a child
enjoy your childhood—it won't last forever
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Recent Examples of childhood
Pyles is circling back to his childhood in a Big Spring truck stop.
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
Before the vaccine became available in the 1960s, measles was very common in childhood.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2025
Evans married his childhood sweetheart, Heather Nudds, in 1984.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2025
But the truth is that most chronic hepatitis B infections are contracted during early childhood, or through mother-to-child transmission.
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
Before the vaccine became available in the 1960s, measles was very common in childhood.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2025
Evans married his childhood sweetheart, Heather Nudds, in 1984.
—Danny Horn, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2025
But the truth is that most chronic hepatitis B infections are contracted during early childhood, or through mother-to-child transmission.
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Childhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/childhood. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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