Example Sentences

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By treating actual adults—the chat participants weren’t teenagers—with kid gloves, they contribute to the cultural malady of infantilization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

She told me she “is concerned about relationships where too much is given because there can be a sense of infantilization, a sense of being beholden.”

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2025

The infantilization of Sarah Jo is never fully developed within “Sharp Stick”; she exists as she is and — outside of the film’s welcome tonal and thematic elements — we are never fully sure why.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2022

The stifling restrictions on women and their infantilization by men were major factors behind the rise of the feminist movement in the second half of the century, described below.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Now, however, we were at the ceremonial crossroads between our infantilization and our investiture with life-and-death powers.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover