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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
The finding that the most effective music for rekindling neural pathways in older age is what was listened to in one’s youth interestingly recalls a large body of study illustrating how music and cultural taste is fundamentally formed in a person’s teenage years.
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New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2025
Soccer beginnings: Started at San Lorenzo youth team at nine years old, joined first team at age 21.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
Among the specifications of the deal are that CarMax will be the presenting partner of Angel City’s season ticket program, title night event and camps series, which comprises 10 weeks of youth soccer camps for about 500 kids in the Los Angeles region.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Though youth, energy and beauty may be perishable — and rejection is a constant — be strong, stay soft and never give up.
—Pamela Anderson, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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New Atlas, 19 Feb. 2025
Soccer beginnings: Started at San Lorenzo youth team at nine years old, joined first team at age 21.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2025
Among the specifications of the deal are that CarMax will be the presenting partner of Angel City’s season ticket program, title night event and camps series, which comprises 10 weeks of youth soccer camps for about 500 kids in the Los Angeles region.
—Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 19 Feb. 2025
Though youth, energy and beauty may be perishable — and rejection is a constant — be strong, stay soft and never give up.
—Pamela Anderson, People.com, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for youth
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Julie Andrews as Maria Andrews starred as Maria, the precocious and inspirational governess who helps the von Trapp kids learn to embrace music and family — and later becomes their stepmother.—
Keith Langston,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Rocky Gap participates in the Maryland Park Service's Scales & Tales education program for kids.—
Trudy Haywood Saunders,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Mar. 2025
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Trump, who travels to NYU in a motorcade from his childhood home at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, is among the 64% of the school’s almost 30,000 students who live off campus.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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The movie tells the story of how police officers forcibly removed Mr. Cissé’s four sisters from their childhood home in 2008.—
Claire Moses,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Authorities are investigating after a teenager was shot and killed around midnight Friday in the unincorporated Los Angeles County community of Willowbrook.—
Suhauna Hussain,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
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The Vatican considers the Italian teenager, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, as an inspiring role model for today's young Catholics.—
NICOLE WINFIELD AND SILVIA STELLACCI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Their adult children wept on the witness stand and spoke of their devastation.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Make your 100 percent tax-deductible donation today to help UNICEF reach more children in need.—
UNICEF USA,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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Effectiveness was 32% for children and adolescents, from the CDC's U.S. Flu VE network of health care systems.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
27 Feb. 2025
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In the 2010s, the developmental scientist Ron Dahl and Jennifer Silk, a University of Pittsburgh psychology professor, started wondering what went on inside adolescents’ brains when their parents nagged them.—
Jenny Anderson,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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The second juvenile, Spencer said, was in custody in Harris County on Wednesday.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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The eldest of the juveniles admitted to voluntary manslaughter and home invasion robbery at a hearing in April 2023.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Youth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/youth. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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