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  • noun Plural form of younger.

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Examples

  • Children recruited to some London gangs - known as "tinys" or "youngers" - must also complete initiation rituals, which can include the rape or even murder of rival gang members, according to a report.

    Evening Standard - Home 2009

  • It was an interesting experience — a few of the youngers girls were more timid about their designs, but I was delighted by how the others jumped right in and boldly placed plants, fairyhouses, birdbaths, etc., like seasoned pros.

    Fairies seen at local elementary school « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

  • Since the generation of composers that were in rebellion against modernist complexity are now The Establishment, one might expect their disrespectful youngers, crisis or no crisis, to swing the pendulum in a different direction.

    Just Another Rhumb Line Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Since the generation of composers that were in rebellion against modernist complexity are now The Establishment, one might expect their disrespectful youngers, crisis or no crisis, to swing the pendulum in a different direction.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • I'm so sick and tired of hearing about race, yeah us youngers owe a great debt, whatever shut up already, both Democrats and Republicans, you make yourselves out to be holy than thou on something NOBODY EVEN CARES ABOUT ANYMORE.

    Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics' 2009

  • The two youngers guys with strong chances to make the team are Los Angeles 'Jack Johnson and St. Louis' Erik Johnson, although Erik will have to show well at the start of next season because he will have missed the entire 2008-09 season with a knee injury.

    Younger Americans' play crowds field for Olympic team 2009

  • It was an interesting experience — a few of the youngers girls were more timid about their designs, [...]

    2010 April « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010

  • Richard Kay, like Nigel Dempster before him, is paid to write a diary about moneyed toffs like David and Sam so that humbler tube-travelling folk can goggle a bit and scowl at their youngers and betters.

    Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs Peter Preston 2010

  • On his estate, olders (late teens to 20s) give youngers (younger teens) and tinies (12 to 13 and below) their drugs to sell or hold.

    Top boy: stories of Hackney's young drug dealers 2011

  • I used to make the youngers construct a pictorial flowchart of the stellar lifecycle.

    Think Progress » Sarah Palin calls global warming studies ‘snake oil science.’ 2010

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