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Recent Examples of preteen
Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2025
Two of her choices were preteen girls clearly enthralled to be in her warm presence.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Kayla Grant, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
So for nearly seven decades, three generations of the Lupacchino family have been helping preteen baseball players from around the world navigate an event that is both quintessentially small-town in atmosphere and globally recognized.
—Zach Powell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
In Belly’s flashback, preteen Conrad is anxiously screaming at preteen Belly for wandering off under his supervision, which feels more like mean-babysitter behavior than that of a romantic hero, but mean-babysitter behavior is also my main gripe with Conrad.
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2025
Two of her choices were preteen girls clearly enthralled to be in her warm presence.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
The second photo was a throwback to when Ricki was a preteen.
—Kayla Grant, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
So for nearly seven decades, three generations of the Lupacchino family have been helping preteen baseball players from around the world navigate an event that is both quintessentially small-town in atmosphere and globally recognized.
—Zach Powell, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preteen
Adjective
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Of teenage dances, young romances, basketball tournaments – all turned to ash.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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Her characters are cast to record an audio adaptation of a wildly popular vampire romance series that defined their teenage years, just like The Twilight Saga defined hers.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Mandela Egbo, once a Crystal Palace academy player who switched to Borussia Monchengladbach in his late teens, broke through to their first team that season.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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My then teen-age mother, whose birth nose looked not unlike her father’s, hadn’t even expressed a desire to have work done.—
David Kamp,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Born in 1945, Dreja grew up in Kingston Upon Thames, England, and was drawn to rock ‘n’ roll as a teenager.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
7 Oct. 2025
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Still only a teenager (aged 19), but played 111 times for Ajax and has been in and out of the Dutch senior squad for almost two years.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Pathways for young English players are increasingly threatened, even in the post-Brexit era, where recruitment of academy footballers from abroad is restricted.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Jones first rose to prominence during his time as a standout at Syracuse University alongside his younger brother, fellow former NFL star Chandler Jones, from 2006 to 2009, before going on to get drafted in the fifth round of the 2010 NFL Draft.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Consider this your official guide to keeping up with all the references and conversations your tween or teen will be talking about.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
3 Oct. 2025
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One creator, who goes by @littlemisstippytoes on TikTok, said in a post that before tween media rose to prominence, preteens were either seen as early bloomers for looking more mature, or childish for looking their age.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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TikTok removes around 6 million underage accounts globally every month by using various age detection methods, including technology to detect when an account may be used by a child under the age of 13, according to a spokesperson.—
Ana Nicolaci da Costa,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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The women lack legal recourse Because the women weren’t underage and the man who created the deepfakes never distributed the content, there was no apparent crime.—
Jonathan Vanian,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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After a long day of activity, reward the kids with a treat from The Cake Bake Shop or Graeter’s Ice Cream.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Many autistic kids are drawn to water, regardless of its temperature, because water offers a calming sensory effect.—
Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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According to Andrea Lunn, an integrative child and adolescent psychotherapeutic counsellor, Haines's experience reflects how attachment works in practice.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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But ever since Wembanyama was an adolescent, he has been locked in a battle against history and time.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Preteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preteen. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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