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Noun
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Without sea stars to balance the food web, urchin numbers have exploded.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2025 -
Their big-brother/little-brother vibe is more affecting than the relationship between siblings Natalie and Henry, typical Hollywood urchins whose brave action-movie routines are exceptional only for their cubistic, pillowy environs.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Now please don’t get the whippersnappers in the GTW offices wrong.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
8 Mar. 2025
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Like his character, his powers haven’t dimmed with age, whatever the whippersnappers might think, and if both have made a few bad decisions in a long career, not even Superman is perfect anymore.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Seeing my friend so comfortable in comfort, my old guttersnipe buddy who’d once lived for years in actual squalor, felt odd.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
28 Sep. 2024
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Our point-of-entry into the world of competitive bloodsport is Tenax (Iwan Rheon, better than the inconsistent writing), a former guttersnipe who has risen to control a wildly successful gambling concern tied to the chariot races in the Circus Maximus.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 July 2024
Noun
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The door is opened by Ms. Etienne, 75 — a wry, sinewy woman with a gamin haircut.—
Ben Brantley,
New York Times,
18 Sep. 2019
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Liliane Montevecchi, a glittering French gamin who became a cabaret star in Paris, a pal of Marlon Brando’s in Hollywood, and the Tony Award-winning ‘‘muse’’ of director Tommy Tune on Broadway, died June 29 at her home in Manhattan.—
Washington Post,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 July 2018
Noun
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And advertising for e-cigarettes has been heavily aimed at adolescents, according to a recent article in Missouri Medicine, The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association.—
Ryan Anderson,
Arkansas Online,
25 May 2025
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Passive use of social media — scrolling — has been shown to be associated with anxiety and depression in adolescents, says Jacqueline Sperling, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and co-program director of the McLean Anxiety Mastery Program at McLean Hospital.—
Eliza Brooke,
Vox,
23 May 2025
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The Girl with the Needle portrays that girl as a blonde moppet named Erena (Avo Knox Martin) to whom Karoline becomes a surrogate mother.—
Esther Zuckerman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
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So sometimes Poppa’s House wants to focus on different generational views on child-rearing, since Junior and Nina have a pair of cute moppets.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Oct. 2024
Noun
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There is now a strict curfew in place to deal with the juveniles who have increasingly become more and more emboldened as a result of our weak Attorney General.—
Pilar Arias , Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
27 May 2025
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Officers also arrested one juvenile for obstruction, who was released from the precinct.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 May 2025
Noun
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The couple usually hide the youngsters' faces in online photos but in these their features were visible.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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The rest of the cast is predominantly made up of youngsters with different types of disability.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
21 May 2025
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“Hobbledehoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hobbledehoy. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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