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Recent Examples of teenage
Anya Taylor-Joy, in her film debut as the family's teenage daughter, appears to be the center of the escalating occurrences, as the clan begins to splinter.
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Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
The scientific consensus pegged this second dinosaur as a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex — a conclusion that would soon be overturned.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
The journey from teenage uncertainty to adulthood wasn’t easy.
—Keyaira Boone, Essence, 30 Oct. 2025
All four of Wiseman’s children are in their pre-teen to teenage years, involved in activities and costly sports.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
The scientific consensus pegged this second dinosaur as a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex — a conclusion that would soon be overturned.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025
The journey from teenage uncertainty to adulthood wasn’t easy.
—Keyaira Boone, Essence, 30 Oct. 2025
All four of Wiseman’s children are in their pre-teen to teenage years, involved in activities and costly sports.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC, offers food benefits, breastfeeding services and nutrition education to 65,000 Arkansas women, infants and children younger than five.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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Every young solo traveler should heed these nine tips.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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Another instructor took advantage of the captive audience to share his political beliefs, with great volume and conviction, to the mostly preteen students.—
The Editors,
Outdoor Life,
30 Oct. 2025
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Tiny baby on billboard: From preemie to preteen Jordyn White was born prematurely, weighing less than three pounds.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Did an adolescent Bruce really have to walk into bars and collect his father, at the urging of his mother?—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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The action scenes are tired, and the plot is howlingly predictable, but what’s even worse is that Farrell — despite his youthful, bright-eyed good looks — demonstrates surprisingly little charisma.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Serrat’s approach to beauty is youthful — and inspired by her own childhood passion for art and color.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
26 Oct. 2025
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The company plans to use technology to detect underage users based on conversations and interactions on the platform, as well as information from connected social media accounts.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Oct. 2025
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Character Technologies alluded to these cases and troubling coverage of them in its statement on blocking underage users from chatting with their bots.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
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This was a minor bit of incomprehension on my part.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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He is being charged in juvenile court with evidence tampering and unlawful gun possession by a minor.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
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Starring Daniel Chen and based on Chen’s life, Bad Boy tells the story of Dean, who is imprisoned in a cruel juvenile detention facility.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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In August 2020, five orcas chased a juvenile white shark, pushed it to the surface, and flipped it onto its back.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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And these photos, which circulated through the young-to-youngish internet as early as 2021, were astonishing.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Jon Marans' play demands rare skill sets, calling for two actors — one youngish, the other with more mileage — who play piano well enough to pass as classical musicians.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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