young

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While his peers scrimmaged against players in their own grade, the young Kon Knueppel spent his evenings taking a crash course in basketball nitty-gritty from guys two or three times his age.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

And if we engage regularly, it actually affects the size, structure and functioning of those brain regions, which can help with the development of brains in young children.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

A new study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly shows that young men who favor the trad lifestyle don’t honor and cherish tradwives — they hold them in contempt.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

"Doctors have basically said now there's nothing else we can do because I'm so young, they can't do any more surgery," the McDonald's shift manager told the BBC.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Only once did the changes taking place in Germany reach inside the little shop on the Barteljorisstraat, and that was in the person of a young German watchmaker.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom