young thing
Americannoun
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a young person.
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a young animal.
Example Sentences
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“It’s my hope that whatever side of the culture war, the Rogan-Neil Young thing, a person may land, that people can be sympathetic to the struggle of working artists trying to get fair pay,” Eve 6 frontman Max Collins said at the time.
From Washington Post
Or is it instead time to blood Scarlets' bright young thing Sam Costelow?
From BBC
“It’s my hope that whatever side of the culture war, the Rogan-Neil Young thing, a person may land, that people can be sympathetic to the struggle of working artists trying to get fair pay,” said Eve 6 frontman Max Collins said.
From Washington Post
Anna Sorokin, a bright young thing who befriended “New York’s party people,” as the story had it, and used them to prop up her life of lies and excess.
From Los Angeles Times
“It’s my hope that whatever side of the culture war, the Rogan-Neil Young thing, a person may land, that people can be sympathetic to the struggle of working artists trying to get fair pay.”
From Washington Post
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