subteen

Definition of subteennext

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Noun
  • For a lonely teenager in a rural town, a young person exploring their identity, a migrant child keeping culture and family within reach or a neurodivergent child who finds the school corridor or the playground.
    Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • On June 12, the stylish teenager joined her family in attending her father David Beckham's Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony.
    Staff Author, InStyle, 12 June 2026
Noun
  • The charge comes after photos and videos showed Lang outside the Collin County courthouse several times this past week during the murder trial for teen Karmelo Anthony.
    Shawna Mizelle, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Text messages between Roberts and her teen son had been shown to the jury, with the pair discussing what type of alcohol the teenagers wanted for the party.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • In that year in the United States the number of lost kids had dropped to just over two per hundred.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Children might get a teepee tent and toys, while older kids might have cards, board games, boogie boards, or a volleyball net.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The San Francisco Zoo recently welcomed three Magellanic penguin chicks, the first successful hatching of these South American birds at the zoo in three years.
    CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2026
  • It’s also made of eco-friendly bamboo and predator-proof to keep your birds safe until every chick is ready to take their first flight.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • Three adults, as well as three juveniles, faced multiple criminal charges in the shooting.
    Ben Wheeler June 12, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
  • The teen received an adult designation, which allows the judge to sentence the teen as a juvenile or an adult, or to allow rehabilitation before implementing an adult sentence.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • The younger Iannaccone started as a youngster breading chicken cutlets and baking cookies with his grandmother, then worked with his dad.
    Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 11 June 2026
  • As these 50 million or so American youngsters (about 2 billion globally) begin to make their mark on the culture, Is your marketing department at least as savvy as an 8th grader?
    Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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
  • At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.
    Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
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“Subteen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subteen. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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