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June 4, 2025
Jun 4, 2025
Word
infantilize
verb
Definition
  1. to cause to be or remain like an infant or young child
  2. to treat like an infant or young child
Example
Stanley still lives with his parents, who are inclined to infantilize him to such a degree that he'll probably never make it on his own.
Origin
"Infantilize" is just a baby, relatively speaking, in the English language family. It first saw the light of day in the early 1940s, when social scientists started using it to discuss ways that humans or human activity can prolong or encourage dependency in other humans by treating them as helpless. The adjective "infantile," which gave birth to "infantilize," is far more mature, however -- it's over 300 years old. "Infantile" sometimes literally means "relating to infants" -- that is, to children in the first year of life -- but it also has a broader meaning; if I chide someone for his or her infantile behavior I simply mean that the person is acting immature or childish.
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Idiom
make a clean breast of
Confess fully; as in Caught shoplifting, the girls decided to make a clean breast of it to their parents. This expression, first recorded in 1752, uses clean breast in the sense of baring of one's heart, the breast having long been considered the seat of private or secret feelings.
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
Fun facts
  1. French author Michel Thayer published a 233 page novel which has no verbs.
  2. It is illegal for a portrait of a living person to appear on U.S. postage stamps.
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Artist
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas
Feb 26, 1906 - Sep 3, 1994

Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, also known as Niko Ghika, was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, writer and academic. He was a founding member of the Association of Greek Art Critics, AICA-Hellas, International Association of Art Critics.

He studied ancient and Byzantine art as well as folk art due to his adoration for the Greek landscape. During his youth he was exposed in Paris to the avant-garde European artistic trends and he gained recognition as the leading Greek cubist artist.

His aim was to focus on the harmony and purity of Greek art and to deconstruct the Greek landscape and intense natural light into simple geometric shapes and interlocking planes.

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Historical figure
Edward Lord
Born Jan 13, 1972

Charles Edward Lord OBE JP is a politician, non-executive director, consultant, and a sports administrator. They have been an elected member of the City of London Court of Common Council since February 2001, most recently re-elected in March 2017. They are currently chair of the City's Establishment Committee, leading on workforce and inclusion policy and member of the powerful Policy and Resources Committee. Lord was Chair of Local Partnerships LLP from 2009 to 2012 and served on Executive of the Local Government Association from 2008 to 2012 and the LGA Improvement and Innovation Board from 2004 to 2013, where

he led on equality and social inclusion. From February 2011 to July 2018 Lord was chair of Capital Ambition in which role they served of the Leaders' Committee of London Councils. Lord was Group Board Chair of the Amateur Swimming Association, the English national governing body for swimming, diving and water polo from 2013 to 2015 and has held a number of appointments within the Football Association. Lord was appointed an OBE for public service in June 2011.

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Historic event
Election recount

An election recount is a repeat tabulation of votes cast in an election that is used to determine the correctness of an initial count. Recounts will often take place if the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close. Election recounts will often result in changes in contest tallies. Errors can be found or introduced from human factors, such as transcription errors, or machine errors, such as misreads of paper ballots. Alternately, tallies may change because of a reinterpretation of voter intent.

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