whippersnapper
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But if Chara, 40, is an old man in a league where the average age is younger than 26, he would have been something of whippersnapper in this summer’s World Cup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
To paraphrase the delegate’s argument, she was going to do her part to encourage people to vote whenever she damn well pleased, and was disinclined to submit to scripted choreography dictated by some whippersnapper.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024
The whippersnapper was about 5 to 7 years old, some 4 meters long, and weighed about 350 kilograms—as much as a large domestic pig, and about 1/10 the heft of its parent.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
On the verge of its 90th birthday, Granada FC is a mere whippersnapper when compared to the magnificent 800-year-old edifice that dominates the city.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2021
“Hundred and fifty million years? A whippersnapper among ammonites, really. What say we buy it for you?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
