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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hobbledehoy
Noun
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Luckily, on one dive, I was accompanied by Stephanie Mutz, a commercial fisherman with an expertise in urchin harvesting.—
Jaime Lowe,
New York Times,
26 Sep. 2024 -
The foreign urchins also need play rooms, with free toys and games.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
23 Mar. 2024
Noun
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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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Chalamet is just 29 — a whippersnapper in AARP terms.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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Effectiveness was 32% for children and adolescents, from the CDC's U.S. Flu VE network of health care systems.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In the 2010s, the developmental scientist Ron Dahl and Jennifer Silk, a University of Pittsburgh psychology professor, started wondering what went on inside adolescents’ brains when their parents nagged them.—
Jenny Anderson,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 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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Two of the victims were juveniles, and the third victim was an elderly woman, later identified as Desir.—
Greg Wehner,
Fox News,
28 Feb. 2025
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Following the incident, Cambridge Police were able to identify multiple juveniles suspected to be involved in the incident.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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Fortunately by that point, the bus driver had already ushered all 15 youngsters on board to safety.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
1 Mar. 2025
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Last year, the youngster captured the golf world's attention by winning twice on the PGA Tour.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Hobbledehoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hobbledehoy. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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