as in teen
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
Their daughter is a teenager. The show is very popular among teenagers.
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Recent Examples of teenager
Celebrini also joins Gretzky as the only teenagers in NHL history with at least 40 goals and 70 assists in one season.
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
After Rivas’ body was found, friends and family identified her as a missing teenager from Lake Elsinore, about 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
Kevin Heyward opened Kevin’s Seafood in New Haven 1976 as a teenager and, after nearly 50 years in the city, he was forced to close the restaurant in 2025 due to multiple health problems.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
No surprise the replacement coach, Guillermo Hoyos, is Messi’s longtime friend, a confidant, a mentor of his since Messi was a teenager.
—Greg Cote
april 16, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
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Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2026
After Rivas’ body was found, friends and family identified her as a missing teenager from Lake Elsinore, about 75 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026
Kevin Heyward opened Kevin’s Seafood in New Haven 1976 as a teenager and, after nearly 50 years in the city, he was forced to close the restaurant in 2025 due to multiple health problems.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
No surprise the replacement coach, Guillermo Hoyos, is Messi’s longtime friend, a confidant, a mentor of his since Messi was a teenager.
—Greg Cote
april 16, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenager
Noun
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The teens were arrested, authorities said.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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Rodriguez, whose family adopted Sibomana-Rodriguez when the teen was in middle school, then introduced him to the family sport.—
Daniel S. Levine,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Bisceglia says those families should not have to roll the dice when choosing care for some of the state's most vulnerable kids.—
Shaun Boyd,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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At just 10 years old, London Woodard radiated a gentle worldliness his family believed exceeded that of any other kid.—
Audrey Pachuta,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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While raising young children, Currie finally obtained her undergraduate degree in 1968 before working on the campaign of activist and lawyer Michael Shakman to be elected delegate to the 1969-70 constitutional convention.—
Hannah Meisel,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Harper’s Bazaar didn’t report a due date for her third child.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2026
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The city is working to create a youth advisory board to be a liaison between teens and the city government.—
Terell Bailey,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation offers a Free Snack Program that provides nutritious meals for youths — newborns to 18-year-olds — at its public parks.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Apr. 2026
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The parents were shackled and sent to adult detention; the child was shipped to a federal shelter as an unaccompanied minor.—
Sarah Stillman,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Over hours of closed-door testimony, the Clintons both denied knowledge of Epstein's crimes prior to his guilty plea in 2008 for soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2026
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Some 19 minutes into the match, the Rapids’ Josh Atencio was whistled for a tripping call in the Miami box that was so soft, a toddler could’ve slept on it.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
19 Apr. 2026
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By the time Noemi Guzman held a toddler at knifepoint in front of a Nebraska Walmart, the 31-year-old woman had struggled with mental illness for several years of her life.—
Selina Guevara,
NBC news,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Teenager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenager. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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