teenage

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Definition of teenagenext

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Recent Examples of teenage Stanfield says some of his teenaged clippers have made thousands of dollars, while Whop CEO Steven Schwartz estimated his service has paid out tens of millions to these virality specialists. Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026 Davis is a retired widow with two daughters, two granddaughters and a teenage great-grandson, Pope said. Julian Roberts-Grmela, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026 Breathnach will be her older teenage sister Marjorie; and Dourif and Harbour are playing the parents. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 9 Apr. 2026 The latter were necessary in an environment where locals policed themselves and tried to keep unruly teenage energy from boiling over into violence. Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for teenage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
Adjective
  • Boasting the third-youngest roster in the NBA, the growing pains are going to be unavoidable.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • California lawmakers want schools to include nicotine in drug tests already given to student-athletes, some as young as seventh graders.
    Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • 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
  • The preteen Coetzee was miserable when the family moved to Worcester, not far from where the Karoo starts.
    Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • His adolescent name-calling and desperate need to emblazon his name on multiple sites are cause for national embarrassment.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2026
  • For example, research shows that adolescent boys are more susceptible to pressure for risk-taking behaviors than girls.
    Amy Morin, Parents, 3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Flávio, youthful at 44, is tied with the incumbent in polls, and accuses Lula of being too close to China.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Widening our view to the moon’s more recent epochs requires nabbing more youthful material from the surface.
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • What went into the decision to obscure the identities of Sam’s underage victims without outright blurring their faces?
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The records pulled back a curtain on favor-trading and frank communications in a chummy elite that looked past Epstein's 2008 guilty plea to solicitating prostitution from an underage girl in Florida.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 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
  • The Sox no longer have a David Ortiz or Mookie Betts — or even an Alex Bregman, whose leadership was so important to this youngish bunch last season.
    Steve Buckley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • So a first question, after this signature collaboration between Rodríguez, Cobos and Corral, is how many others in Spain’s superb youngish cadre of film and TV creators – Sorogoyen, Ruiz de Azúa, the Javis and Laxe, to name just a few – may end up working with Corral.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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