teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage Davis said that the shooting took place around midnight and the couple's two teenage children were inside the home. Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026 In all, 25 campers and two teenage counselors were killed. Jim Vertuno, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026 Both were found dead at their northern Virginia home in Annandale after the couple’s teenage son called 911 shortly after midnight Thursday, said Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis. Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2026 Davis said the couple's teenage son and daughter were in the home at the time of the shooting but were not harmed. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for teenage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
Adjective
  • The virus is highly contagious and can infect nearly all young children, according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The Hochsteins share two young children together.
    Anna McAllister, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • People packed into cars with their aging relatives and their preteen children.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The research team found the highest PFAS concentrations when participants were age 3, which were associated with higher bone density at age 12, Buckley said — contrasting with the finding of lower adolescent bone density when the children had high PFAS levels closer to the preteen years.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Narrated by Josh Gad, Orangutan introduces us to Indah, an adolescent orangutan preparing to leave her family unit for the first time and venture into the wild.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Recently released from prison, coach Walt Mangian joins a local youth gym to help a ragtag team of adolescent boxers aspiring to a national championship.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • His somber face contrasts sharply with the youthful smile of an earlier family picture from 1936.
    Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The color palette for Denim Virals is more exuberant and youthful with lilac purples, high-visibility pink, limeade and orange.
    Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Australia’s ban still requires social media platforms to use their own age assurance technology to prevent underage users from creating accounts and to remove existing underage users from the platforms.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There’s no need for a friend of a dental hygienist to stay in the room with a sedated underage female patient in a world that has total respect for women.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • There could be minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas, periods of heavy rain and thunderstorms, and urban and small stream flooding.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
  • There is at least some truth that social media use may cause a minor rise in dopamine levels, but not in a way that resembles drugs or qualifies as addiction.
    William Proctor, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The driver and a juvenile boy were both taken to the hospital with unknown injuries, according to the release.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Leatherman ran toward two juvenile bystanders while Selmer ran toward downtown Emmitsburg, according to documents.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • There’s also a growing crop of youngish skippers who made the managerial turn quite quickly after their playing days.
    Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The first of these—a cult favorite among writers, particularly youngish women writers—put Lemann on the map as a singular stylist, capable of crystalline insights into the miscreants and oddballs of the American South and great bursts of unrestrained sentiment.
    Brandy Jensen, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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