subteen

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Noun
  • In his block was another teenager — Elie Wiesel — who would go on to write about his experience in the Holocaust in the memoir Night and later received the Nobel Peace Prize.
    Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • The film sees Steamboat Willie’s first mate, Minnie, go on a killing spree when seeking revenge against the childhood bullies who tortured her as a teenager.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Research shows that 57% of Gen Z teens feel pressured by their parents to attend college, even as alternative education pathways, such as professional certifications and micro-credentials, grow in value.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Parents — and even some teens themselves — are growing increasingly concerned about the effects of social media use on young people.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Olsen talks about how the grind of having to earn a living, the drag of figuring out home care for young kids, has worn female writers down.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Often, wealthy parents pay Riley, a director and senior admissions consultant at Ivy Academic Prep, to help guide their kids when applying for college.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA Today, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Maryland prosecutors from across the state have consistently echoed the frustrations of our constituents who have all but given up any hope of justice being served when juveniles commit crimes.
    Ivan J. Bates, Baltimore Sun, 30 June 2025
  • The young man, described as a juvenile and identified only as Mohammad A, is charged with supporting a foreign terrorist group, Islamic State, and aiding another suspect in prepping for the attack.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Yet, the youngster is still in search of his first PGA Tour victory.
    Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • The older elephants surround it, allowing the youngster to relax and play in the water while being protected from crocodiles lurking nearby.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • The multimedia exposure drew the adoration of the era’s teenyboppers, who raced to spend their allowance money on T-shirts, lunch boxes and magazines featuring the face of Bubblegum Bobby, as he was known.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • Bed-rotting while watching Grey’s Anatomy, routinely taking breaks between hospital shootings and plane crashes, is a much different experience from devouring eight episodes of a teenybopper show in one sitting.
    Catherine Mhloyi, Them, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Third row seats are best left for rug rats, or folded.
    cleveland, cleveland, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Your standard maternal protagonist is not dropping a trail of pacifiers behind her, swilling goblets of red wine the minute her rug rats are in bed, and secretly vaping in the linen closet?
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 14 May 2018
Noun
  • Dear Eric: My kiddo is hardworking, makes friends everywhere and is working on her third advanced degree.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 2 July 2025
  • In fact, experts say that a kiddo playing alone is beneficial for their development.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 2 July 2025
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“Subteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subteen. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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