TEENAGE Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

teenage

adjective

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Definition of teenage

as in young

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Recent Examples of teenage The three-word message echoed her earlier defense of teenage fans caught in a confrontation at a Seattle Storm game after showing support for her stance on women’s sports. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Three young children and a teacher were killed Thursday afternoon in a horrific shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, and a teenage suspect was fatally shot by a good Samaritan who pursued him. — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026 The man who stopped a deadly elementary school attack in Oregon by shooting the teenage gunman inside the building is the father of two girls at the school, his mother said Friday. — Haven Daley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 The movement, which began in the Paris region and rapidly spread nationwide, has seen teenage students in their final years of high school block access to buildings and clash with law enforcement. — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for teenage

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Adjective

Video on social media showed distressed shopkeepers begging young men to stop stealing their inventory—and those young men pushing them aside to grab shoes and food from their shelves.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
Such laws would require third-party audits of social media algorithms to identify any harmful patterns, such as serving eating-disorder content to young girls more than to other groups.

— Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of young

Adjective

Some ads featured photos of real kids, including a press photo of a young member of a European royal family and images swiped from a popular Instagram profile of a preteen girl deemed an influencer.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Magnetic and unforgettable, preteen Baquero’s performance anchored a major awards-season breakthrough for del Toro.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 June 2026

Definition of preteen

Adjective

This placed adolescent Danny right in the center of 1950s Hollywood.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
Plans include growing its psychiatry residency, expanding adolescent psychiatry fellowships, and launching an addiction medicine fellowship to prepare future specialists.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of adolescent

Adjective

His youthful experiences of flight and cultural assimilation inform a great deal of his work, which centers themes of belonging, identity, and collective memory.

— News Desk, Artforum, 15 Oct. 2026
There’s an atemporal quality to Guitarrica’s music, at once vibrant and youthful, of its moment with pop hooks but simultaneously pulling from the traditional sounds of flamenco and rumba.

— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of youthful

Adjective

Eight states sued OpenAI this week, alleging that the AI company caused severe harm to users, many of them underage, while downplaying the risks of its technology.

— Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026
Johnson did not show leniency toward Gardner, whose guilty plea enabled him to avoid a trial that likely could have resulted in testimony from his underage victims.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of underage

Adjective

Although the mattress developed some minor misshaping after a month of heavy use, Moon still thinks it’s packed with value.

— Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026
Zachary Christian Cooper, 22, of Boyd was arrested by Department of Public Safety investigators Thursday morning at the Rhome Fire Department, on allegations of online solicitation of a minor and possessing child pornography.

— Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of minor

Adjective

At its center is a youngish man named Bob Arctor, an undercover cop who starts using drugs in order to infiltrate a house full of addicts in Southern California.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Gesturing to the youngish man with the close shave, a simple come hither.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026

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