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young blood

American  

noun

  1. youthful people.

  2. fresh new ideas, practices, etc.; vigor.


young blood British  

noun

  1. young, fresh, or vigorous new people, ideas, attitudes, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of young blood

First recorded in 1620–30

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Longevity is something that we can best achieve not as individuals taking supplements and getting transfusions of young blood, but by collectively engaging in and contributing via tax dollars to practices that promote everyone’s well-being.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2025

Future studies are planned to test whether the disease takes advantage of the highly proliferative capacity of young blood cells to make patients' leukemia more deadly than older, less vigorous blood cells.

From Science Daily Dec. 5, 2024

"I just hope that America finds some really young blood," he says.

From BBC Oct. 25, 2023

Most of the science behind young blood transfusion is bunk — that much is true, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

From Salon Aug. 27, 2023

But, Aglavale, I am trying to make a new law in Britain, by which people don’t have to go on shedding young blood for ever.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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