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young

[yuhng] / jʌŋ /


NOUN
animate beings that are not mature
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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Wrightwood Elementary in San Bernardino County created a program to better support its older neighbors by connecting young families with senior citizens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Helen said awareness of young onset dementia had grown since the 90s - but diagnoses still took too long.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Supermarkets are mostly used by "the young urban population with comfortable incomes", the economist added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

One of his readers was a young Princeton physics doctoral student named Dario Amodei.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Clare saw himself as a young kit, scared and alone and barely understanding the white fox who’d appeared from the shadows.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

That could cause younger actors to "lose hope", said Shimada, who is part of the campaign group.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

The first member of the younger generation to develop symptoms was Christy, a pharmaceutical-company executive in New Jersey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Her younger son currently lives in the condo, but wants to move elsewhere with friends.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

He says the main issue they see with some younger candidates is a lack of preparation, not being punctual, and not researching the role, organisation or interviewer.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Noah looks hardly any older than Leah, and Janneke is even younger.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Records show their youngest daughter, Ephraïma, was born in Berbice in 1771 before moving to the Netherlands when she was 3.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

City have successfully lowered the average age of the squad to the extent they now have the third youngest set of players in the Premier League behind Newcastle and Chelsea.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The Christian Science Monitor called him the “world’s youngest hacker.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Now, though, for the first time, he acknowledges the title - an achievement that would make him the youngest world champion in F1 history - is on his mind.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Now it came from the king’s youngest wife.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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