teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage This is believed to be the worst case of using your hands since the teenage boy discovered his dad’s Playboy collection. Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2026 But seeing close friend and teenage phenom Keys capture her major in Melbourne last year — after many wondered if her window had passed — hit closer to home. Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026 Once upon the ’90s, a teenage girl named Robin Miriam Carlsson was crowned a pop princess. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026 The dog belonged to her teenage love, Gabriel Wolfe. Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for teenage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
Adjective
  • McKinney was Double-A Binghamton’s pitching coach last season and thus owns deeper histories with many of the Mets’ younger arms.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The 49-second video begins with a young girl in blue pants picking up a metal water bottle from the ground and throwing it at another girl.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 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
  • For those who perhaps find Euphoria a touch too harrowing (or exaggerated) to watch, Skins provides a perfect middle-ground with more authentic adolescent experiences that still flirt with darkness.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Early, who wrote and directed, also stars as the title character, Maddie Ralph, a food influencer who is secretly struggling with the return of an adolescent eating disorder.
    Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Carden gets to be more overtly funny as the live-wire Vicki, making her foolish, but usually foolish in a way that’s grounded in her youthful damage.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Jackson, Ray and Harrison-Hunte, if used properly, could be positioned as cheap, youthful depth behind Derrick and Bobby Brown and Wharton in 2026.
    Mike Kaye Updated March 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • The Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission and Boston Licensing Board have also committed to working with Boston Police, bars and package stores to prevent underage booze sales this weekend, the letter states.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Epstein had been convicted of procuring an underage girl for prostitution.
    Christine Valora, The Washington Examiner, 9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Left-hander Marco Gonzales, a veteran coming back from flexor tendon surgery and in camp on a minor-league deal, followed with another three scoreless innings.
    Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
  • This will be the period when the threat of severe weather is highest, with large hail, damaging winds and minor flooding as the main concerns throughout the afternoon.
    Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 7 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Official charges come after two students were arrested and two were given juvenile citations, according to a police department spokesman.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2026
  • He was taken to a juvenile assessment center.
    Silas Morgan, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Americans, especially ones who were youngish and worked on computers, were toting green paper bags around coastal cities (and later, smaller towns and non-coastal cities) en masse.
    Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
  • The Lions graduated several standout players from last season’s team, but Lions coach Erik Kirsch likes the potential of this season’s youngish group.
    Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 7 Jan. 2026

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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