as in youthful
being in the early stage of life, growth, or development
a young cat requires more food than an older one a young tree that will eventually reach 50 feet tall
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Recent Examples of young
Janae Bowens, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2025
Should Grier and McDaniel be allowed to draft another young quarterback in their win-a-playoff-game-or-get-shown-the-door season?
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2024
In reproduction, there’s the energy embodied by offspring–the hatchlings that emerge from eggs or the newborn young that result from live birth.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
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Adjective
This contrasts with Baby Boomers, who typically married young and experienced higher rates of divorce and remarriage.
—Janae Bowens, Baltimore Sun, 17 Jan. 2025
Should Grier and McDaniel be allowed to draft another young quarterback in their win-a-playoff-game-or-get-shown-the-door season?
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
These trees are excellent hosts for caterpillars, an important food for birds feeding their developing young.
—Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Aug. 2024
In reproduction, there’s the energy embodied by offspring–the hatchlings that emerge from eggs or the newborn young that result from live birth.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
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Some of the youthful aspirations included travelling to New Zealand, having a YouTube channel, discovering a new species, and meeting an alien.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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The Heat continues to explore the youthful frontcourt duo of Nikola Jovic and Kel’el Ware.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
16 Jan. 2025
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Their analysis — which involved examining genetic data and 25 years’ worth of photos — revealed that just 7% of male humpbacks showed evidence of having sired offspring.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
10 Jan. 2025
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An orca who carried her dead calf’s body for weeks has lost another offspring.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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The 17-year-old suspect, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody on Monday and transported to a juvenile facility in Bridgeport.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
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The teen was taken Monday to the juvenile detention facility in Bridgeport.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
14 Jan. 2025
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The insult stats that follow this team like a brood of baby ducks were erased after Santos’ kick sailed through the uprights.—
Jon Greenberg,
The Athletic,
5 Jan. 2025
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Share [Findings] Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual brood.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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People with leukemia often have a high number of immature white blood cells called myeloblast, which are not usually present in the blood.—
Doru Paul,
Health,
10 Jan. 2025
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These immature cells can develop into different types of blood cells, including white blood cells (WBCs), central to immune function.8 Getting sufficient and consistent sleep can help make your body more resistant to disease and infection.—
Mark Gurarie,
Verywell Health,
9 Jan. 2025
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Webcam viewership hit an all-time high last March, when around 32,000 people tuned in at once in hopes of watching Jackie’s eggs hatch, Steers said.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Dec. 2024
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Ortiz will teach students to prepare lamb fondue, smoke trout tartare, bison tenderloin with hatch green chile bearnaise, and Redstone Meadery tiramisu.—
Sara Hansen,
The Denver Post,
19 Dec. 2024
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During the early years of the coronavirus pandemic, an expansion of the federal child tax credit led to dramatic reductions in adolescent poverty.—
Benjamin Oreskes,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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Center specialized in child and adolescent psychiatry after graduating from medical school.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
30 Dec. 2024
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Not all significant social movements were progressive: Gordon also sketches the largely nonviolent northern branch of the nativist and racist Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, as well as its highly violent progeny, the 1930s American fascist movement.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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Once inside our cells, the viruses can crank out hundreds to thousands of progeny, thus causing an active infection.—
Mark Kortepeter,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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“Young.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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