youngling

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Recent Examples of youngling So after gathering all the adults who had tried to exert influence over the hybrids in a holding cell, Wendy laid down the new laws of the land while her Xenomorph and its chestburster youngling watched menacingly on. Megan McCluskey, Time, 24 Sep. 2025 But even younglings with a limited attention span, who can't sit still for an entire feature film, will forever have a connection to the screen icon who died Tuesday at the age of 89. Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2025 The Jedi who weren’t good enough yet for anything else—the younglings. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 May 2025 And, the younglings can come along, safe and secure, in child safety seats finished in the same Pasha fabric. Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025 And indeed, during the relatively short time AI agents are in use by younglings, tragic cases have already emerged. Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 Not much further though…unless some of the younglings play outstanding. C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 30 Jan. 2025 In its own very different way, Skeleton Crew is also trying to see this territory through new eyes — in this case, four younglings who should probably be in science class and not figuring out how to get a ship into hyperspace. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2024 Along with the announcement, Disney also posted a new trailer teasing how younglings Wim (Ravi Cabot-Conyers), Neel (Robert Timothy Smith), KB (Kyriana Kratter), and Fern (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) get swept up in the adventure of a lifetime with Jod Na Nawood (Jude Law) as their Force-sensitive guide. Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 26 Nov. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for youngling
Noun
  • After a long day of activity, reward the kids with a treat from The Cake Bake Shop or Graeter’s Ice Cream.
    Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Many autistic kids are drawn to water, regardless of its temperature, because water offers a calming sensory effect.
    Victoria Moorwood, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Morris, 64, entered guilty pleas to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child in an Osage County courtroom.
    Nolan Clay, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some schools offer tuition discounts if multiple children from the same family are enrolled.
    Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two mountain lion cubs found orphaned and malnourished in March have been released back into the wild after undergoing rehabilitation at San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • On a patch of public land north of Ramona earlier this month, Angela Hernandez-Cusick watched with a group of wildlife experts as the door to each cub’s carrier was opened.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Youngling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/youngling. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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