archaic
: misery, affliction
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Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Parents, experts and lawmakers have urged tech giants to do more to prevent the sale of counterfeit or illicit drugs to young people through their platforms, after multiple teens have died of overdoses from pills bought online.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
Meanwhile, antidepressant prescription rates in teens increased by 1,400 percent between 1987 and 2014.
Between 1999 and 2018, the pharmaceutical industry purportedly spent $4.7 billion on lobbying expenditures at the federal level—more than any other industry.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Graham had read about many cases of violence through the years young British teens — including one in Liverpool about three young boys who stabbed a young girl and another about a transgender girl who was lured into a park and killed.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 22 May 2025
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Noun
Alexander Zverev, the No. 3 seed and 2024 French Open runner-up, takes on talented American teen Learner Tien, making his Roland-Garros main-draw debut.
—Merlisa Lawrence Corbett, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Parents, experts and lawmakers have urged tech giants to do more to prevent the sale of counterfeit or illicit drugs to young people through their platforms, after multiple teens have died of overdoses from pills bought online.
—Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
Meanwhile, antidepressant prescription rates in teens increased by 1,400 percent between 1987 and 2014.
Between 1999 and 2018, the pharmaceutical industry purportedly spent $4.7 billion on lobbying expenditures at the federal level—more than any other industry.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
Graham had read about many cases of violence through the years young British teens — including one in Liverpool about three young boys who stabbed a young girl and another about a transgender girl who was lured into a park and killed.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 22 May 2025
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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teen. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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