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  • adjective not young

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un- +‎ young

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Examples

  • At the American Prospect site, Paul Waldman's written a good summary of the demographic trends that have largely doomed the Republican Party's ancient strategy of winning national majorities by appealing to the "unpoor, the unblack, and the unyoung."

    Ed Kilgore: Can the GOP Expand Its Demographic Base While Moving Right? 2009

  • For such extraordinary artistry to emerge from a woman that plain-spoken, unglamorous, and unyoung was an intoxicating reminder of the wisdom in that corny old cliché.

    Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Why Susan Boyle Makes Us Cry 2009

  • I'm back in Brooklyn, now, unyoung yet in need of coffee and WiFi.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • For such extraordinary artistry to emerge from a woman that plain-spoken, unglamorous, and unyoung was an intoxicating reminder of the wisdom in that corny old cliché … I think we cried because her story appears to be en route to a happy ending, but also, perhaps, for all the books whose covers have never been cracked. the video, you're in for a treat.

    Make Them Accountable 2009

  • For such extraordinary artistry to emerge from a woman that plain-spoken, unglamorous, and unyoung was an intoxicating reminder of the wisdom in that corny old cliché.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • Some of us who are comparatively unyoung can remember TRS 100’s and null modem cables, CPM and 64K of memory, and think that WordPerfect 4.2 was perfectly sufficient… What is truly amazing is the lock Windows has on the world and the corresponding fortune it’s generated.

    Windows at twenty — Slaw 2005

  • It remained for Emmy, Emmy with the hard and unyoung look her face assumed when she spoke of her stepmother, to make the bitter comment: “She’s not really SORRY for

    The Way Home 2003

  • good summary of the demographic trends that have largely doomed the Republican Party's ancient strategy of winning national majorities by appealing to the "upoor, the unblack, and the unyoung."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • good summary of the demographic trends that have largely doomed the Republican Party's ancient strategy of winning national majorities by appealing to the "upoor, the unblack, and the unyoung."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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