teenage

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Definition of teenagenext

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Recent Examples of teenage The six jurors in George Pino’s vessel-homicide and manslaughter trial took a road trip to North Miami on Thursday morning to view his boat, which was wrecked in the crash that killed a teenage girl and severely injured two others. David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026 Difficult teenage years with lots of poor decisions and rebellious behavior. Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 11 June 2026 Competing tales about the origins of kugelhopf variously feature the three magi, battles at the gates of Vienna and a teenaged Marie Antoinette. Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 10 June 2026 During the weeklong trial, the teenage boy testified that Roberts flirted with him by the pool before kissing him and later taking him upstairs. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for teenage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
Adjective
  • For young travelers, Paintbox and Paintbox Petite are the resort’s exclusive clubs for children ages 5 to 12 and 2 to 5.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
  • Big surf from a previous swell contributed to a drowning Saturday off Dana Point and, on Wednesday afternoon, the search continued for a young girl swept off the sand Tuesday evening in Laguna Beach.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 11 June 2026
Adjective
  • Kaylee isn't the only preteen to have made the news for selling lemonade in recent days.
    Adam England, PEOPLE, 7 May 2026
  • People packed into cars with their aging relatives and their preteen children.
    Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • This ideal of masculinity is not a patriarch but a perpetual adolescent, endlessly irresponsible and endlessly indulged.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The diary became a map of adolescent rivalry.
    Kate Casey, Vanity Fair, 2 June 2026
Adjective
  • The series chronicles the joining of two very different families after a youthful romance between two grandparents — Alan Buttershaw (Derek Jacobi) and Celia Dawson (Anne Reid) — is rekindled.
    Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • That principle has crumbled so far in the face of Wembanyama’s combination of incomprehensible on-court abilities, youthful enthusiasm and cosmopolitan-unto-eccentric savoir faire.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 9 June 2026
Adjective
  • When her once-close friend Harper (Myha’la) finds her in Paris, Yasmin is now organizing illicit interactions with underage girls and young women for ultra wealthy de facto neo-Nazis and conservative politicians.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 7 June 2026
  • An underage passenger in a crash northeast of Atlanta is lucky to be alive after they were thrown from their vehicle onto the hood of a police cruiser.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Adjective
  • The postmortem highlighted nearly two dozen laws that the city attorney’s office identified as affecting Meridian city business, some requiring minor tweaks to standard practices and others necessitating city-code overhauls.
    Rose Evans June 6, Idaho Statesman, 6 June 2026
  • His identity is not being made public after Roach issued an order on Friday barring public identification of any minor witnesses.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 6 June 2026
Adjective
  • His new path takes him to grad school at Columbia University, with hopes to one day start his own nonprofit, Camp Reese, a bootcamp-style alternative to juvenile incarceration.
    Rina Nakano, CBS News, 6 June 2026
  • Plans are in motion, however, to reuse the Lincoln Developmental Center, a compound for developmentally disabled adults that was closed years ago, as a juvenile justice facility.
    Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Adjective
  • There’s also a growing crop of youngish skippers who made the managerial turn quite quickly after their playing days.
    Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The first of these—a cult favorite among writers, particularly youngish women writers—put Lemann on the map as a singular stylist, capable of crystalline insights into the miscreants and oddballs of the American South and great bursts of unrestrained sentiment.
    Brandy Jensen, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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