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Recent Examples of Synonyms for juvenescent
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What Parents Can Do For all of these reasons, Common Sense Media says these products pose a serious risk to younger children and raise concerns for older children as well.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
22 Jan. 2026 -
Despite a lack of clear data on the safety and prognostic findings, melatonin use in young children is common, underscoring the need for more research in age-specific cohorts.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Locked away in a tower, 18-year-old Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) has a seemingly endless train of hair with healing powers, which her kidnapper, Mother Gothel (Donna Murphy), uses to her advantage in a vain attempt to maintain a youthful appearance.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Jan. 2026
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Two youthful rangers approached.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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Bi modelled the monster after the way fetuses look on ultrasounds, at once aged and infantile, and had his designers make the Deliriant hunched over, bearing a tortoise-like shell on his back.—
Dennis Zhou,
New Yorker,
12 Dec. 2025
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The program is the legacy of Dr. Stephen Arnon, chief of the Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program at the California health department, who dedicated his life to finding a treatment for infantile botulism.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
25 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Her girlish pout, tiny waist and generous bust were often more appreciated than her talent.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Dec. 2025
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As mainstream culture embraces girlish femininity alongside an ahistoric raw-milked nostalgia for a trad past, the sheep becomes a totem of the submissive, sacrificial role for women and girls in a new gender landscape.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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When Smith drives us in the golf cart, hunched close to the wheel, a look of childish mischief spreads over his face.—
Sam Kestenbaum,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2026
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The ensuing power struggle between Woody and Buzz threatens to put their owner’s childish things away forever in Pixar’s debut feature.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Near them is a pen and a yellow legal pad, with a few lines scratched in an uneven, boyish hand.—
Sadia Shepard,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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In the coming years, Garcia and Weir, initially a boyish figure next to his older and usually hairier bandmates, would become the faces of the Dead and its increasingly large cultural footprint.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Juvenescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/juvenescent. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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