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
Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2025
The tiny crypt-keeper wasp lays its eggs inside the crypt, and allows its young to grow alongside the gall wasp’s babies.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2025
Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Fretting about how young people spend their hours is a perennial adult pastime, one that long predates Minecraft.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Many species, such as bees, collect pollen to feed their developing young.
—Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2025
The tiny crypt-keeper wasp lays its eggs inside the crypt, and allows its young to grow alongside the gall wasp’s babies.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2025
Noun
There were conversations about a young striker who was impressing at Southampton called Alan Shearer.
—Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Fretting about how young people spend their hours is a perennial adult pastime, one that long predates Minecraft.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for young
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The action scenes are tired, and the plot is howlingly predictable, but what’s even worse is that Farrell — despite his youthful, bright-eyed good looks — demonstrates surprisingly little charisma.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Serrat’s approach to beauty is youthful — and inspired by her own childhood passion for art and color.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Think about our offspring, our kids.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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Stop being a people-pleaser, particularly where your offspring is concerned.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Starring Daniel Chen and based on Chen’s life, Bad Boy tells the story of Dean, who is imprisoned in a cruel juvenile detention facility.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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In August 2020, five orcas chased a juvenile white shark, pushed it to the surface, and flipped it onto its back.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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While speaking with The Daily Beast, the actor praised his two wives for raising his brood of 8 children.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Try for striped bass between Rocky Branch and Prairie Creek parks with brood minnows or shad.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Noah's sister-in-law Esther (Jackie Tohn), the Jewish character portrayed most insultingly last year, has thankfully been softened and refined, and has somehow become the lone voice of reason amongst a group of immature idiots.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Stem cells are immature cells that have the ability to turn into insulin-producing beta cells and to produce more cells like themselves.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Some due diligence is required to understand what happens when your cannabis goes down the hatch, but never fear.—
Carly Fisher,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Oct. 2025
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The slide-out module on the trailer's left expands the interior to comfortably fit a transverse double bed, while the open hatch on the opposite side can support an auxiliary tent to grow out the sheltered space.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Did an adolescent Bruce really have to walk into bars and collect his father, at the urging of his mother?—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Peete ‘forever changed my life’ That question haunts Peete’s progeny.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Young.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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