teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage Camp Mystic’s owner filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods in Texas Hill Country killed 25 girls, two teenage counselors and the camp’s longtime director. Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 June 2026 There’s an emotional pulse to these scenes, as the teenage Kara fights the decision of her parents (David Krumholtz and Emily Beecham) to send her to Earth, just as her uncle sent her cousin Kal-El (David Corenswet) a couple decades earlier. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026 Deputies later found the teenage girl hidden inside a clothes dryer at the residence, according to investigators. Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2026 Spencer’s teenage son was awakened in the night in 1992 to find his father beating his mother in the head with a brick, according to court documents. Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for teenage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
Adjective
  • Still, younger investors are leading the charge for AI adoption.
    Justina Lee, CNBC, 25 June 2026
  • Most of those children are 3 years old and younger, USA TODAY has reported.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 25 June 2026
Adjective
  • The main structuring absence in the film is Pansy (Deborah Mailman) and her distance from her two preteen children, Max (Hazel May Jackson) and Kid (Eli Hart).
    Catherine Bray, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
  • And Sabrina is sort of the Olivia Rodrigo of the past year as far as the preteen girl following and even older than that, going into 20-something-year-old women.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Programming includes individual and family mental wellness counseling, lifestyle empowerment consultations, and adolescent nutritional consultations.
    Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 June 2026
  • At another section of the hospital, teens in hospital scrubs walked the quiet halls of the adolescent unit with their lunch trays.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • With its stylish squid kids blasting each other while dressed in the freshest urban styles, the Splatoon franchise is Nintendo’s most modern and youthful series.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • That’s where Monday found the Nets, between youthful belief and organizational patience.
    C.J. Holmes, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • An underage girl was injured and treated at a hospital.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2026
  • Tensions between the two first erupted in 2006, when O'Donnell called Trump out on The View regarding his response to the controversy surrounding Miss USA winner Tara Conner, who was accused of partaking in underage drinking and cocaine use.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 19 June 2026
Adjective
  • Messi had been dealing with a minor hamstring injury with Inter Miami that slowed him in the lead-up to the World Cup.
    Schuyler Dixon, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • Nearly four-fifths of respondents said that gas prices present some sort of strain, with 34% categorizing it as a major strain and 44% calling it a minor strain.
    Justine McDaniel, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
Adjective
  • In 2023, 18-year-old Bryan Diaz died of a fentanyl overdose at the county’s other main juvenile hall in Sylmar.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Others questioned how the county is addressing juvenile crime, including carjackings involving young suspects.
    Drew Aunkst, CBS News, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • The Pope, Leo XIV, is an American from Chicago’s bungalow belt, and, after him, the second most prominent American Catholic is Vance himself—a youngish convert from small-town evangelical Protestantism, a Marine veteran, and an alumnus of Ohio State and Yale Law.
    Paul Elie, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • Ideally, the Blackhawks wanted a youngish, left-handed, puck-moving defenseman who could play alongside the likes of Levshunov and Sam Rinzel, while elevating and supporting that group’s development.
    Scott Powers, New York Times, 24 June 2026

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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