as in teenager
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
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Recent Examples of teen
Billboard has partnered with Gabb Wireless, a phone company for kids and teens, to present a monthly chart tracking on-demand streams via its Gabb Music platform.
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Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
Meta made changes to its AI chatbot policies following the report and now prevents its bots from discussing subjects like self-harm, suicide and eating disorders with teens.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Afterward, they were approached by Virgil Simms, Mantronix’s manager and a Jive Records A&R executive, who praised the teens for their poise.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
While at the summit, Brown interacted with the teens, according to his account in the report.
—Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025
Meta made changes to its AI chatbot policies following the report and now prevents its bots from discussing subjects like self-harm, suicide and eating disorders with teens.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
Afterward, they were approached by Virgil Simms, Mantronix’s manager and a Jive Records A&R executive, who praised the teens for their poise.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
While at the summit, Brown interacted with the teens, according to his account in the report.
—Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teen
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Kinser's remains, with a bullet hole in his skull, were discovered the following September in a sinkhole in the woods by two teenagers collecting firewood, per the Exoneration Registry.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
20 Oct. 2025
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As it has been reported, the trend spread out around the city within a few years, mostly through the agency of teenagers eager to have their tags known all around the city.—
Antonio Sergio Bessa,
Curbed,
20 Oct. 2025
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McNicoll’s compassionate, immersive writing has wide appeal for preteen and teen readers, both those neurotypical and neurodivergent.—
Sara Rowe Mount,
Parents,
15 Oct. 2025
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Hailey Brown, 26, began watching YouTube as a preteen on her iPod Touch in Springfield, Missouri.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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Included in the edit were a sports clip of Charlotte Hornets’ basketball player LaMelo Ball, who stands 6 feet 7 inches tall, and another clip featuring a tween and some fellow tween basketball fans shouting the numbers while waving their palms up and down courtside at a game.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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The tween audience only grew as each year a new crop of young viewers discovered the show in Netflix’s library.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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In August, Reuters reported that Meta allowed its chatbots to have romantic and sensual conversations with kids.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
17 Oct. 2025
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Each week features new recipe samples, kids’ crafts and community resources.—
Marcus Smith,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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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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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
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New York seriously entertained creating a roster spot to add two of those veterans, even shopping around promising but raw youngster Pacôme Dadiet, according to league sources.—
James L. Edwards III,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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Watch Williams have some weird interactions with youngsters as Olson here.—
Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Oct. 2025
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Use of complementary and alternative medicine in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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Children and adolescents ages 2 to 18, without other high-risk factors like immunosuppression, can receive and should be offered the vaccine if they were not immunized before, according to the guidance.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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Ultimately, 12 adults and two juveniles were arrested by the LAPD for failing to comply with dispersal orders, CBS Los Angeles reported.—
Madeline Armstrong,
Oc Register,
18 Oct. 2025
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The Prince George's County Fire and EMS Department said in a social media post that of the 11 people taken to the hospital, nine were juveniles, including the infant.—
Jack Moore,
ABC News,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teen. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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