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as in kid
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood
he earned the admiration of the neighborhood sprouts when he showed them how to make a slingshot
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Recent Examples of sprout
Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 July 2025
The surrounding forest has a Jurassic vibe to it with lush ferns, mosses and huge elephant ears sprouting from the wet earth below.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 18 July 2025
Katie Sullivan Morford, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2025
Inspectors gave the Vietnamese restaurant a yellow placard after finding several foods outside of proper holding temperatures including raw sprouts, cooked rice, pork, brisket and vegetable egg rolls.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
july 18, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2025
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Noun
Some creatures have thick, dark skin that’s resistant to UV harm; others sprout fur, scales, or feathers that block the sun’s rays.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 July 2025
The surrounding forest has a Jurassic vibe to it with lush ferns, mosses and huge elephant ears sprouting from the wet earth below.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 18 July 2025
Verb
Add turkey slices, 1 slice sharp cheddar, 2 slices each tomato and cucumber, a pile of sprouts, and thinly sliced pepperoncini.
—Katie Sullivan Morford, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 July 2025
Inspectors gave the Vietnamese restaurant a yellow placard after finding several foods outside of proper holding temperatures including raw sprouts, cooked rice, pork, brisket and vegetable egg rolls.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
july 18, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprout
Noun
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Osbourne's family — including wife Sharon and his kids Louis, Aimee, Kelly and Jack — said their final goodbyes to the rocker during an emotional funeral procession on July 30 in Birmingham, England.—
Virginia Chamlee,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Security camera footage from the homes of missing kids reveals disturbing images of them running toward, rather than away from something, but concrete leads are elusive.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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No, wait— a few flakes come dusting down, where one limb shakes.—
David Baker,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The warm soil and decreasing temperatures help seeds germinate quickly, and pests and weeds aren’t as rampant as during the summer.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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But when intent ignores human values, those very optimizations will only germinate in ways that ignore humanity.—
Shekar Natarajan,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
Noun
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As the oldest of three children, Fitzgerald had also just started living on his own in Manhattan, per the obit.—
David Chiu,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Sharon, as well as her and Ozzy’s children, Jack and Aimee Osbourne, were attached to produce alongside Polygram’s Michele Anthony and David Blackman and Sony’s Andrea Giannetti.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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Over in Russia, a 32-year-old content creator ended up with a fractured spine after recreating the pose for her first-ever blog shoot.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The shoot quietly took place on and off in upstate New York during a three-month stretch.—
William Earl,
Variety,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Erin is expected to produce areas of heavy rainfall beginning late Friday, Aug. 15, and continuing through the weekend across the northernmost Leeward Islands, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, as well as southern and eastern Puerto Rico.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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Companies like OpenAI, Google, Meta and xAI are in the thick of it, racing to produce the smartest large language model (LLM) while facing strong rivals from Asia.—
James DiNardo,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Collective action at the global level is necessary to blunt the worst effects of climate change and nip future pandemics in the bud.—
STACIE E. GODDARD,
Foreign Affairs,
28 July 2025
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Picerno also previously revealed to FOX 4 that Willis was asleep with ear buds and a loud fan on.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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Share stories of lateral moves in company updates—not as policy footnotes but as real growth journeys.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The president is moving forward with new, significantly more aggressive tariffs that economists fear could exacerbate budding economic problems, including rising inflation and slowing job growth, that are just now becoming more apparent.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Sprout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprout. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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