teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage The teenage girl also was not mentioned in a superseding federal grand jury indictment, which only referenced a 9-year-old victim. Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2025 One teenage girl had not yet been able to take the DNA test that was required by the federal government. Nicol León, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025 Or a team member with a green card might worry about their teenage daughter here on a student visa. Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025 In 2024, the family of a teenage girl from DeWitt, Michigan, claimed two tumors disappeared shortly before she was scheduled for surgery after a pilgrimage to Casey’s burial site. Maya Bell, jsonline.com, 18 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for teenage
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Adjective
  • This is especially true for those with heart disease, respiratory illnesses, the very young, and older adults.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
  • Harris makes his Madea franchise debut in Madea's Destination Wedding, playing B.J., the son of Brian and Debrah and Tiffany's younger brother.
    Allison DeGrushe Published, EW.com, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • Officers found a preteen boy in critical condition.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 27 June 2025
  • That’s the gist of Pixar’s Elio, the story of a preteen boy who prays to be liberated from the doldrums of terra firma and finds himself in way over his head once the obliging E.T.s mistake him for ambassador to Earth.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Globally, obesity in adults has more than doubled since 1990, with adolescent rates quadrupling, the World Health Organization reported.
    Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 23 July 2025
  • Cutting between the two timelines, Washington Black bears witness simultaneously to the very first steps in Wash’s adolescent coming-of-age, and the finishing stages of it.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • But, like Annie's silly side that appears around her sister, your style has a youthful quality, too.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2025
  • His lengthy rule in a country with a median age of 19 is often cited in debates about the disparity between the continent’s youthful population and its elderly leaders.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to soliciting an underage prostitute.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 18 July 2025
  • Epstein died by suicide in 2019 awaiting trial on federal charges of trafficking of scores of underage girls.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • The club insisted Isak was left behind because of a minor thigh problem but The Athletic reported on Thursday sources, speaking anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly, indicated the forward favoured being omitted amid his uncertain future.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 26 July 2025
  • More Songs is, in effect, Eno’s debut as a capital-P producer, notwithstanding some minor early efforts and, of course, David Bowie’s landmark sessions for Low and Heroes.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, juvenile arrests for violent felonies — including many in and around transit — increased in both 2023 and 2024, but these offenses were largely excluded from public crime data.
    Marc Molinaro, New York Daily News, 25 July 2025
  • On the morning of the robberies, according to court documents, there were text messages between Toombs and a person believed to be the juvenile, planning to rob mail carriers that day.
    Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 24 July 2025

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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