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Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Speak No Evil While vacationing in Italy, Americans Louise (Mackenzie Davis) and Ben Dalton (Scoot McNairy) and their preteen daughter (Alix West Lefler) stumble into a fun, go-with-the-flow family: Paddy (James McAvoy), Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) and their nonverbal son (Dan Hough).
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Now, Wendy lives — as much as something who does not have a heart can — in the body of a young adult with the mind of a preteen, working and learning on a remote island with the other Lost Boys, children who will never grow old.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Unlike the High School Musical franchise—whose third film received a theatrical release—few modern preteen narratives reach that level of success.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Speak No Evil While vacationing in Italy, Americans Louise (Mackenzie Davis) and Ben Dalton (Scoot McNairy) and their preteen daughter (Alix West Lefler) stumble into a fun, go-with-the-flow family: Paddy (James McAvoy), Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) and their nonverbal son (Dan Hough).
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
Katherine is also the frazzled single mother to two kids, hopelessly dorky 13-year-old Ben (Skyler Gisondo) and Machiavellian preteen Esther (Natalie Palamides).
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Now, Wendy lives — as much as something who does not have a heart can — in the body of a young adult with the mind of a preteen, working and learning on a remote island with the other Lost Boys, children who will never grow old.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preteen
Adjective
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Familial pairs choose the experimental merge for a variety of reasons, including a mother with Alzheimer’s linking her mind with her daughter; teenage brothers, one terminally ill; a man and his pregnant fiancée; a father and his addict daughter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Documents gone, Ma embarks on a weeklong rampage while readers also get to know teenage thief Boomba.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Usage rates in the teens aren’t going to cut it anymore.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Teen Lifeline’s 24/7 crisis line serves teens at 602-248-8336 for Maricopa County and 1-800-248-8336 statewide.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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We were bullied, after all, by the older teenagers who beat us on a regular basis, bloodied our mouths with one punch.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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With two teenagers, Short's grocery bill is about $1,100 a month.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC, offers food benefits, breastfeeding services and nutrition education to 65,000 Arkansas women, infants and children younger than five.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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Every young solo traveler should heed these nine tips.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Bilson, who shares her daughter with ex Hayden Christensen, wrote a sweet sentiment to the tween for her birthday in the caption for the post.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The word/term/phrase/number has transcended tween and teen slang to become part of the culture of 2025.—
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The company plans to use technology to detect underage users based on conversations and interactions on the platform, as well as information from connected social media accounts.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Oct. 2025
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Character Technologies alluded to these cases and troubling coverage of them in its statement on blocking underage users from chatting with their bots.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The kids' club received an overhaul in 2018.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2025
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Proving that moms will do anything for their kids, Kim Kardashian joined North to dress up as her favorite TikTok stars, Jay Guapõ and Pink Cardigan.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Did an adolescent Bruce really have to walk into bars and collect his father, at the urging of his mother?—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Preteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preteen. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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