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baby-faced

American  
[bay-bee fayst] / ˈbeɪ bi ˌfeɪst /

adjective

  1. having a baby face; childish-looking.


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It's a sweltering Saturday in Colorado Springs as 33 new recruits, some of them baby-faced, line up to be sworn in at the Air Force Academy's Falcon Stadium.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2026

Wall Street’s baby-faced new finance bros wear pricey watches and complain about the high cost of NYC living.

From MarketWatch Mar. 5, 2026

When he was 11, he began portraying Will Byers, the baby-faced boy who was abducted while biking home at night from a friend’s house and pulled into an alternate dimension known as the Upside Down.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 1, 2026

Questions multiplied, but one seemed more elusive than the rest: How did a baby-faced novice from small-town California dupe some of academia’s brightest minds?

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 22, 2025

“Arthur said he stopped by Yale’s campus. He’s kind of baby-faced, but he can be starting there this fall, right?”

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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