subadult

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subadult
Adjective
  • Both Mike and Harriet were juvenile commissioners assigned by the city of San Francisco to mentor boys and girls.
    Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley, CBS News, 4 May 2025
  • Related Stories The result is a passably diverting curio that remains on the level of juvenile fantasy adventure, but with gratuitous elements inappropriate for younger viewers.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Art Across Boundaries Since a young age, Yi Ming has been passionate about the power the visual arts possess to transcend not only philosophical and disciplinary boundaries, but also cultural and national borders.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
  • However, the team already has young pass-rushers that haven't fully developed like David Ojabo and Tavius Robinson, making Stewart redundant.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Roberts has been open about her journey with teenage pregnancy.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • The downturn would only continue: In 2019, the Pew Center found that the teenage pregnancy rate in the US had fallen to fewer than 18 births per 1,000 girls for the first time in history.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Starring Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the sparring, intellectual parents to two adolescent sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline), The Squid and the Whale responds to some of Baumbach’s own experiences as a product of divorce in the 1980s.
    Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
  • One of the main jobs of the adolescent human is to pull away from their parents in preparation for adulthood.
    Cyndy Etler, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Commenters couldn’t get over the fact that Bertinelli was 50 in the snaps, with many praising her youthful appearance.
    Erin Clements, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • On his latest project, Sir Too $hort Vol. 1 (Freaky Tales), his new records carry a youthful urgency, and include plenty of pockets where Short still raps like the rent is due.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • According to police, marijuana use, underage drinking and fights were seen at the party.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In October 2014, TMZ obtained an audio recording of Collins allegedly confessing in a 2012 joint therapy session with then-wife Faye Grant to molesting underage girls.
    Jessica Sager, People.com, 13 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This doesn’t sound like their mess to clean up, and just sounds a bit immature/entitled.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Children and adults pick up an avalanche of unreliable information on social media, and children may process it with immature judgment.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Three have been discharged, including two who sustained minor injuries while responding to the scene.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
  • The toddlers had suffered puncture wounds and lacerations to their arms and legs, while an 18-year-old woman also had a minor injury to her arm, the release stated.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 2 May 2025
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“Subadult.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subadult. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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