teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage Their grids of teenage faces are laid out like tract housing—a locus of conformity—and even at the outset, there was hell to pay for going your own way. Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 The movie is a fictionalized account of real-life serial killer Charles Starkweather and his teenage accomplice, Caril Ann Fugate. Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025 Her complicated grief deepens a rift with her teenage daughter Clara (Grace), whose college dreams and new beau (Thames) Morgan does not approve of. Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025 The film, whose bleakness served as an inspiration for Nebraska, is based on the story of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, teenage lovers who committed a series of murders in 1958. Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences 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
  • Every young solo traveler should heed these nine tips.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
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  • One thing Dewan wasn’t expecting about the preteen years?
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike the High School Musical franchise—whose third film received a theatrical release—few modern preteen narratives reach that level of success.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 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
  • 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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  • This chain was founded in Nagoya in 2010 and takes a more modern, youthful spin on the traditional izakaya experience.
    Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As Zuckerberg in Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, Strong will be assuming a role that was played with nervy, youthful pique by Jesse Eisenberg back in 2010.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • Qualifications also differ slightly between both programs, like TANF only being available for families with underage dependents and having stricter work requirements.
    Keisha Rowe, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The company makes an effort to remove underage accounts when discovered and limit access to adult-only servers (for those 18 years and older), but experts note that these protections are not foolproof.
    Alex Vance, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
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  • Many of them see it as a serious sign of lack of compatibility, rather than a minor difference in opinion.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Given the gale force NE'rly winds some minor soundside coastal flooding (up to 1-2 ft) may also occur starting with the Tue afternoon high tide cycle as well.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • According to the outlet, Sears was airlifted to a hospital following injuries sustained in the crash, while a juvenile passenger sitting in the back was also taken for medical treatment.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Today, much of the building sits empty in north Charlotte, and local teenagers charged with crimes are sent to a state juvenile facility in Cabarrus County.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 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
  • The rooftop pool and open-late bars draw a youngish crowd—lots of millennials with stick-and-pokes—of couples and friends, and absolutely zero kids (though the property is dog- and cat- friendly).
    Emily Wilson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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