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
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
It's not just the BoC's relative youthfulness – at 78 a mere stripling next to the 318 years of the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street – that explains the lack of haughtiness here.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2013
The other sellsword—a stripling, hardly more than a boy, with fuzz on his cheeks and hair the color of dirty straw—scooped up Penny under one arm.
From "A Dance with Dragons" 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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