as in teenager
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
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Recent Examples of teen
In places where the program is active, parents and legal guardians who are verified riders can create accounts for teens.
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
In his teens, Johnson would begin competing in prestigious surfing events like the Pipeline Masters.
—Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026
The friend who spoke to police said Morris attended the same school as the teens.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 June 2026
The center does not protect teens engaged in criminal activity from being arrested.
—Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 June 2026
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 10 June 2026
In his teens, Johnson would begin competing in prestigious surfing events like the Pipeline Masters.
—Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026
The friend who spoke to police said Morris attended the same school as the teens.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 June 2026
The center does not protect teens engaged in criminal activity from being arrested.
—Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 4 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teen
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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
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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
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Like the show, in real life Alex also struggled with the grief and trauma of losing his mother and was often angry with his father as a preteen.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
10 June 2026
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Many royal expert suspect that the preteen will follow in the footsteps of his father and his uncle Prince Harry by enrolling at Eton College.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
3 June 2026
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Barely a tween at the time, the American Horror Story actress wore cropped camo-print pants, a black tank top and a purse made out of tires to the 2001 red carpet for her film Blow.—
Tanisha Bhat,
PEOPLE,
9 June 2026
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Your tween probably can't get enough of them, and often they are sold out in stores.—
Parents,
Parents,
6 June 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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 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
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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
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No, rest is for the lazy, the Caucasian adolescent, the indolent, the indulgent—until the age of thirty.—
Taiye Selasi,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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Gadd gained almost 90 pounds to play adult Ruben (Stuart Campbell in flashbacks), the fractured older-brother figure of Niall (Jamie Bell as an adult; Mitchell Robertson as an adolescent), while their mothers date each other.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
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Three adults, as well as three juveniles, faced multiple criminal charges in the shooting.—
Ben Wheeler
June 12,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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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
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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teen. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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