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Adjective
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Starring Daniel Chen and based on Chen’s life, Bad Boy tells the story of Dean, who is imprisoned in a cruel juvenile detention facility.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025 -
In August 2020, five orcas chased a juvenile white shark, pushed it to the surface, and flipped it onto its back.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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
Adjective
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With a new wave of talent, including Santiago Giménez, Edson Álvarez, and César Montes leading the charge, El Tri are blending youthful energy with experienced leadership.—
Ben Verbrugge,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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And then there's his relatively youthful age of 34 - which was part of his appeal for young voters, but more off-putting to chief executives who may be decades older.—
NPR,
NPR,
6 Nov. 2025
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Jodi Harding was certified to run but has since suspended her campaign after sheriff's reports detailing underage drinking at her home were made public.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
3 Nov. 2025
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Impaired, intoxicated or underage guests will be promptly and safely addressed.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Noah's sister-in-law Esther (Jackie Tohn), the Jewish character portrayed most insultingly last year, has thankfully been softened and refined, and has somehow become the lone voice of reason amongst a group of immature idiots.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Stem cells are immature cells that have the ability to turn into insulin-producing beta cells and to produce more cells like themselves.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This was a minor bit of incomprehension on my part.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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He is being charged in juvenile court with evidence tampering and unlawful gun possession by a minor.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Subadult.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subadult. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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