youths

plural of youth

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Recent Examples of youths Israel says most of these are militants, but youths throwing stones and people not involved in confrontations have also been killed. Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024 But these youths discuss faith instead of politics. Armond White, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024 By the age twenty-one, 20% of autistic youths will have had a police encounter. Catherine Tan, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024 But a Brookings Institution analysis reviewed by Axios indicates that alienated men and youths, especially in low-income areas, likely were behind the jump. Russell Contreras, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024 Hilton has testified in front of Congress and released a documentary on her experience in a facility for wayward youths in Utah. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 19 Dec. 2024 To date, the organization has distributed over 25,000 garments to LGBTQ youths through local nonprofits in New York, New Jersey, Chicago and Detroit. Jay Valle, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024 Volunteers with Knit the Rainbow make winter garments for LGBTQ homeless youths. Jay Valle, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024 Scientists have offered a range of potential explanations for this lengthy childhood, with many pointing to the evolutionary need for youths to develop bigger brains before maturing to adulthood. Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for youths
Noun
  • While Matchbox cars made their debut in the 1950s, Hot Wheels cars and their signature orange track became a hit with boys in the 1960s.
    Dawn Mitchell, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Near the water pipes that supply the camp, boys come to fill up smaller tanks and to chase each other in the desert.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Earlier this year, two teenagers filed a class-action lawsuit against a Kentucky youth detention center and its administrators, claiming that they were subjected to oppressive isolation, denied basic hygiene, showers, and medications, and forced to listen to a toddler song.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Several incidents highlight the growing trend of Iran allegedly hiring teenagers to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish institutions in Europe.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Snyder once again used his own life and the pure optimism of his children in our real-life divisive world, to create a Batman that lives and breathes on that dynamic need to keep going no matter the circumstances.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • In more than three years of full-scale war, Ukrainian families of children with long-term illness have had to overcome countless challenges.
    Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • All three juveniles were released to the custody of their parents.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Separately, all three juveniles were each issued a juvenile summons on charges of evading responsibility with property damage, second-degree larceny, second-degree criminal mischief and interfering with an officer, according to state police.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2025

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