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History for young ’uns was either all “America as the Greatest Thing Ever” or “Mummies Lived in Pyramids!”
From Literature
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“His Honor even said I should take the afternoon off and enjoy myself while he took the children to the zoo, and he’d square it with Lady Ashton personally, but I’d given my word to watch the three young’uns, so I wouldn’t dream of it,” Margaret said proudly.
From Literature
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Premiering Sunday on MGM+, it belongs to a popular genre in which superpowerful young’uns are gathered in some sort of academy, and more specifically to one in which children with extraordinary powers are weaponized by adults for … reasons.
From Los Angeles Times
For the teenagers, the players Anderson calls the “young’uns,” the deliberate timeline feels right.
From Los Angeles Times
British chef Jamie Oliver warned his followers on X: “If anyone hears anything about posh cheese going for cheap, it’s probably some wrong’uns.”
From BBC
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