ephebic

Definition of ephebicnext

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Adjective
  • Still, younger investors are leading the charge for AI adoption.
    Justina Lee, CNBC, 25 June 2026
  • Most of those children are 3 years old and younger, USA TODAY has reported.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 25 June 2026
Adjective
  • One person is in custody after a teenage girl was injured in a shooting in Chicago's Fuller Park neighborhood Thursday afternoon.
    Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • Decades after a deadly virus known as GRID was said to have eradicated homosexuality, a suburban family’s pristine life unravels the day their teenage son starts to uncover the truth.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 June 2026
Adjective
  • An underage girl was injured and treated at a hospital.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2026
  • Tensions between the two first erupted in 2006, when O'Donnell called Trump out on The View regarding his response to the controversy surrounding Miss USA winner Tara Conner, who was accused of partaking in underage drinking and cocaine use.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • Messi had been dealing with a minor hamstring injury with Inter Miami that slowed him in the lead-up to the World Cup.
    Schuyler Dixon, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Nearly four-fifths of respondents said that gas prices present some sort of strain, with 34% categorizing it as a major strain and 44% calling it a minor strain.
    Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
Adjective
  • Muscle mass is beneficial, too, for lifelong metabolic health, and resistance exercise probably improves brain health by releasing substances into the bloodstream that travel to the brain and jump-start processes there that help keep it youthful.
    Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2026
  • Stocked with a pair of first-round selections in what’s been deemed as a deep talent pool, the Hornets are on track to add to their youthful core of Knueppel, LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 23 June 2026
Adjective
  • The Union County Prosecutors Office announced that 18-year-old Vincent Battiloro of Garwood has been waived up to adult court and will be tried as an adult in connection with the murder of the two juvenile females.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
  • Councilman Jeremy Rivas, D-2nd, asked about the main cause of juvenile detention in Porter County and JDAI Coordinator Chante Harden said drug possession and battery stemming from family conflicts were the main causes.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
Adjective
  • That requires separating social media use from adolescent distress, loneliness, family instability, sleep disruption, bullying, genetics, psychiatric vulnerability, pandemic effects, and reverse causation.
    Alex Smolak, STAT, 27 June 2026
  • This unceasing pressure to build a perfect résumé seeps into every dimension of adolescent life, transforming activities that should be sources of joy and discovery into instrumental checkboxes.
    Scott White, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Adjective
  • The Pope, Leo XIV, is an American from Chicago’s bungalow belt, and, after him, the second most prominent American Catholic is Vance himself—a youngish convert from small-town evangelical Protestantism, a Marine veteran, and an alumnus of Ohio State and Yale Law.
    Paul Elie, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • Ideally, the Blackhawks wanted a youngish, left-handed, puck-moving defenseman who could play alongside the likes of Levshunov and Sam Rinzel, while elevating and supporting that group’s development.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 24 June 2026
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“Ephebic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ephebic. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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