as in youthful
being in the early stage of life, growth, or development
a young cat requires more food than an older one a young tree that will eventually reach 50 feet tall
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Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
The most ghostly guest at the Southern California property was Kate Morgan, a young woman who checked into Hotel del Coronado on Thanksgiving Day in 1892—and was found dead on a staircase leading down to the beach several days later.
—Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
The ants feed the leaves to a species of fungus that doubles as their home; in turn, the ants feed the fungus to their own young.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
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The first time one of the silicone dicks is held up in wonder by a post-coital young woman while a guy writhers onstage with a gushing midsection, the audience gasps a bit at the audacity and then cheers — loudly.
—Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
The most ghostly guest at the Southern California property was Kate Morgan, a young woman who checked into Hotel del Coronado on Thanksgiving Day in 1892—and was found dead on a staircase leading down to the beach several days later.
—Kelsey Mulvey, Sunset Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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In reproduction, there’s the energy embodied by offspring–the hatchlings that emerge from eggs or the newborn young that result from live birth.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 16 May 2024
The ants feed the leaves to a species of fungus that doubles as their home; in turn, the ants feed the fungus to their own young.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
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The full process will take about three to four weeks, with caretakers expecting Pesto to lose all of his youthful down by sometime in November.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
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But then life did what life does, and all that youthful bravado leaked out through the lines in his face like steam through fissures in geothermal rock.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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Despite their tendency to reduce social interactions with others when sick, in vampire bats, sick mothers will continue to groom their offspring and vice versa, probably because mother-daughter relationships are extra important.Sebastian Stockmaier, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2024
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Yet he is constantly haunted by his impossible-to-please father, academic F. D. Reeve, which turns Christopher into the kind of dad who is always competing – whether in skiing, hockey, soccer or horse riding – with his offspring.Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2024
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The company continues to focus on advancing SLK in Phase 3 clinical trials for hidradenitis suppurativa and psoriatic arthritis, with additional trials planned for juvenile HS, palmoplantar pustulosis, and axial spondyloarthritis.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
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The stalks on the juvenile Arthropleura resemble those of a crab, which could point to the creature having an amphibious youth before becoming terrestrial in adulthood.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Share [Findings] Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual brood.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Oscar winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter) will lead Mother Wolf, about a retired grandmother, on the verge of a trip of a lifetime, who suddenly becomes caretaker of her brood of grandchildren.Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2024
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Some growers also pinch plants back in September to create an even crown and remove immature stem segments.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
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Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads By 1 Point In Two Latest Surveys Unfortunately, these metrics do not work well for an immature, emerging business.Andrew Binns, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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Eggs lain in water hatch into (usually water-dwelling) larvae known as tadpoles.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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The project originated from Chong’s encounter with a baby hatch organization in 2016.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
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In a more recent study, researchers gathered data from nearly 7,000 adolescent school children in Ontario, Canada.Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15, their lawyer said Monday.Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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Camouflage patterns and rasta colors adorn noticeably giddy attendees of all ages as the iconic musician’s progeny share his music and its timeless message.Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024
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His challengers this time were not Wall Street bankers but his own progeny.Peter Bart, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Young.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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