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We drank Diet Coke through grad school, made sure it was well-stocked at our wedding, painfully restricted our intake through two pregnancies, and only survived two sleepless infancies by the grace of DC.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2021

With these programs in their infancies, it’s difficult to determine their effectiveness just yet.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2013

Officials in Washington and Boston said that even in their programs’ infancies, they never encountered station failures like New York’s or widespread difficulties with docking.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2013

Pincus also invested in Napster, Facebook, Twitter and Friendster, all of which appeared to be risky in their infancies.

From Reuters • Dec. 11, 2011

A sister, I think, that should have been Elizabeth, died in both our infancies.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles