stripling
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Not since 1996, when Roy was a stripling of 24, have all 12 required appropriations bills been separately signed into law.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
Caine plays the ringleader, the 77-year-old widower Brian Reader, and the rest of the cast is a turkey-necked, arthritic dream: Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon and Jim Broadbent, with Ray Winstone a mere stripling at 61.
From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2018
Occasionally, however, he overdid the youthful bit: after all, at the age of fifty-two, he is hardly a stripling.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 20, 2015
As a stripling in his late 70s, he shambled convincingly as the 87-year-old Firs in the Taper's 2006 revival of "The Cherry Orchard."
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015
"I remember another stripling who was given com-mand of Storm's End. He could not have been much more than twenty."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing stripling
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Mythology
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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