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How to use the word young in a Sentence?

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In the name of beauty, surgeries unfold, Young girls alter bodies, a story untold. As if God made mistakes in His creation, A defiance of divine design, a false fixation.

– Christen Kuikoua

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1 month ago

I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone.

– David Carr

added by Normando
4 months ago

Beauty and its allowance to be selective is a magic reserved for young women, not old girls.

– Link Starbureiy

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9 months ago

I think young people feel like we have to do everything ourselves or know everything already. We tend to get overwhelmed by things we haven’t learned, my Dad does a great job of teaching things concisely but also showing people that whatever is weighing on you is probably an easier solution than you think. You just need someone to light the way.

– Emily Petterson

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Too often I find that young people are overwhelmed by adulthood, and I think they just need someone to sit with them and encourage them to take it one thing at a time. one simple rule.

– Bo Petterson

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Meta has a record of abject failure to protect children and teens, and yet again, this company has chosen to put young users at risk so that it can make more money.

– Ed Markey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m in my mid-60s, and of course, air pollution was very tangible when I was young, but these days, thank goodness it isn’t. Most people don’t see it.

– Katherine Pruitt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nobody can tell us if the roles were reversed, and you had a Black man shoot a White 16-year-old teenager for merely ringing his doorbell that he would not be arrested, i mean, this citizen went home and slept in his bed at night after shooting that young Black kid in the head.

– Susan Pfannmuller/AP Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

An overwhelmingly White conservative legislature taking this remarkable and drastic step of expelling the two young African-Americans.

– Melissa Deckman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Under the age of 20 or 22, our brains are still developing, and we’re still formulating our understanding of the world, children and young adults start to create narratives around their own safety, the safety of their schools and homes and communities based on what they are witnessing. Tragedies can tend to make them think that the world is an unsafe place.

– Shairi Turner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Kennedy signed the original Community Mental Health Act of ’63. Attorney General Robert Kennedy created the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in order to intervene early in young people’s lives, and my father was primary Senate sponsor of parity, these issues, and the incredible legacy that they all had on civil rights – from JFK being the first president to address the issue on national TV to RFK standing with Dr. King to my father’s seminal work on the Voting Rights Act – and immigration reform, are at the heart of my family’s legacy.

– Patrick Kennedy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are going to be legitimate questions about how many keys did this individual have? How many rooms was he allowed to go into to take things out of as part of his job? And did he really need that as part of his job? i can tell you firsthand that there are young people in the military that do incredible work in the intelligence field around the world.

– Josh Campbell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I can tell you firsthand that there are young people in the military that do incredible work in the intelligence field around the world.

– Josh Campbell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this brand, there will be no future for Bud Light.

– Alissa Heinerscheid

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Brands today want to be inclusive, they want to be relevant, especially with young people, i don’t think brands set out to be polarizing.

– Tim Calkins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve had young athletes I’ve had to talk to about this. You have nothing to prove. Tell them how you actually feel and never lie about your symptoms. Pushing through because you don’t want them to think you’re weak is the worst thing you can do, i am a gold medalist, and I struggle with that. So I can’t imagine a high school kid – they’re just starting the path, chasing the dream. And they don’t want their coach to think they’re weak, or their parents or their teammates.

– Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Every single one of those bills going to have to do with that, because that’s what these young people are begging us to do.

– State Rep. Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There were no Catholics in my area or school. For most of my life, I thought, we are the good guys – and all of them Irish Catholics were evil, scary and wanted to kill us, but it’s not that young loyalists are running around with a hatred of Irish Catholics in their hearts.

– Joel Keys

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Youth organizations are crying out for government support. There’s funding there that ca n’t be given out – because there’s no government – and these youth services are going to close. Young people rely on it so much. I honestly ca n’t even begin to imagine the impact this will have on their lives, it feels like all these issues are more important than sectarian politics – but it feels like if we do n’t address sectarianism – then we ca n’t deal with these issues.

– Liam McBurney/PA Wire/AP Conlon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I invited them to do a little acappella piece with me tonight, just as part of my exchange of supporting upcoming young female artists, people that might, in this day and age, be excluded.

– Shania Twain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am a 60-year-old White woman, and they are two young Black men.

– Gloria Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we might have these two young men back very soon, it is my promise to fight like hell to get both of them back.

– Gloria Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it is pretty clear. I am a 60-year-old White woman, and they are two young Black men.

– Gloria Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I represent 78,000 people, and when I came to the well that day, I was not standing for myself, i was standing for those young people … many of whom can’t even vote yet, many of whom are disenfranchised. But all of whom are terrified by the continued trend of mass shooting plaguing our state and plaguing this nation.

– Justin Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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