young

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This jibes with the challenge hypothesis, which says, in multiple species, testosterone levels rise when males battle for attention from potential mates and go down when it’s time to take care of the young.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

For nearly a quarter of a century, Nigel James has been coaching young footballers in south-west London.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

In one scene, a young person "wonders whether... that kind of love was possible only in the old times", he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

But the young women who would have become telephone operators became stenographers, administrative assistants and waitresses instead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Here was a new danger, a tiny fugitive too young to know the folly of making a noise.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom