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youngster

[yuhng-ster] / ˈjʌŋ stər /


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But the ending hints at the possibility that the spirit of Jason may have leapt into the youngster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Jim Rigby, who baptized Talarico and married his parents, remembers the youngster as a "calming presence."

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Mr. Levin paints the pampered youngster as a “stubbornly self-centered” boy who kept “studiously aloof” from the antislavery activism that young Harvard radicals embraced in the late 1850s—and that Shaw was all but born to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

I went through this learning experience way back when I was a libertarian youngster and I read “The Triumph of Politics” by President Ronald Reagan’s libertarian budget director, David Stockman.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was neck and neck between Shady Howard and the boy Jinx until the youngster won out, taking home the 1918 victory quilt for a bid of $25.75.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

"The youngsters coming in think that they can do better than what we did last time and I fully back that and believe them as well," Barrow said.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Citing what it describes as "damning findings" within the report, the paper says "youngsters in Blackpool, for example, are 27 times more likely to miss school than those in Lambeth".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Middlesbrough have built a reputation in recent years of providing a springboard for promising youngsters.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The group stemmed from a joke made by Dipke in response to a remark by Chief Justice Surya Kant, who had likened jobless youngsters to "cockroaches".

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

A pair of white youngsters in school uniforms leaned over the fence and requested my autograph.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane


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