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as in boy
a male person who has not yet reached adulthood
a big, strapping youth who, even at his relatively young age, knew the meaning of hard work
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as in kid
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood
rounded up the neighborhood youths and organized them into a softball team
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as in childhood
the state or time of being a child
told the young people to enjoy their youth while they could
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Recent Examples of youth
To change that, the company is investing $1 million, in partnership with the VF Foundation, in the National Park Foundation to help youth explore national parks and partake in outdoor educational experiences.
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Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
As a teen-ager, Johnson was absorbed into the politically conservative Christian youth culture of the area.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Funds raised will help support local service projects – including youth programs, scholarships, and community grants – as well as international humanitarian initiatives, according to a news release.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
With a postseason berth hanging in the balance, Florida’s youth corps will need to perform.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
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Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
As a teen-ager, Johnson was absorbed into the politically conservative Christian youth culture of the area.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Funds raised will help support local service projects – including youth programs, scholarships, and community grants – as well as international humanitarian initiatives, according to a news release.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
With a postseason berth hanging in the balance, Florida’s youth corps will need to perform.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for youth
Noun
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No army in history seemed ever to have been more ragged and motley and mongrel and polyglot than the Continental, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, from boys to old men, skilled and unskilled, born all over the world, speaking dozens of languages, believing in different gods and in no god.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Gordon's wife Tana Ramsay also shared a post in honor of Jesse's big day, including more photos of the birthday boy.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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The driveway was already full of other cars arriving and various parents and kids taking photos like crazy and squealing.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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They were married in 1968, with Miguel Bezos adopting her young son, and had two more kids, Christina and Mark.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Even more poignant, however, is the Rosemary's Baby angle, where the innocence of childhood is drowned in blood and the notion that a young person reared in a loving environment should develop into a compassionate adult is perverted into unthinkable horror.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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The initial childhood of Victor Frankenstein lends itself more to that age of enlightenment.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
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The teenager, who had run away from home and become involved with Chan’s group, described to police a flat where methamphetamine use was constant and violence frequent.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
10 Nov. 2025
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I'mPhaedra Trethan, back after a couple of college visits with my teenager, and contemplating this story over my coffee.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Under the public trees, children ran exultantly between cars.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Villages have been burned, civilians executed, and children targeted.—
Kim Aris,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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Choose the one that works best for your adolescent.—
Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Driscoll’s workbook on mental health care for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes also walks through various strategies, including communication and problem-solving skills.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Youth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/youth. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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