teener

Definition of teenernext

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Noun
  • The killing of 14-year-old Agostina Vega, found dismembered after a week missing, has reignited national fury ahead Ni Una Menos protests, echoing the 2015 teen murder that birthed Argentina’s movement.
    Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
  • During these takeovers, authorities say teens often assault people and sometimes each other, commit robberies and carry out other disorderly behavior.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • On May 18, two armed teenagers entered the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing an armed security guard in a gun battle, then fatally shooting two men cornered in the parking lot, police said.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Zaya Wade is one stylish teenager!
    Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • School kids arrived on field trips and groups lined up for exhibitions, taking the escalators up past the abstract artist Julie Mehretu’s vibrant, 83-foot-tall vertical window.
    Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
  • Bell-to-bell phone bans are among the strategies proposed in a new Surgeon General's advisory warning of the threat excessive screen time can pose to kids.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.
    Greg Poole, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The New Jersey preteen was struck in the neck by a baseball during pregame warm-ups with Maple Shade Youth Baseball on May 26.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026
  • Rather than become a journalist like her mom, however, the preteen wants to be an actress.
    Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 May 2026
Noun
  • Throughout the fair’s run, youngsters can learn about animals and gardening at the Fair Farm, take selfies with butterflies, root for their favorite fowl in the Great American Duck Races.
    Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 4 June 2026
  • Two youngsters hunkered by a small beach fire, holding slender sticks over it.
    Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • That's because her tween is already shopping in her closet and stealing her clothes for class.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
  • In the summer of 2000, four tween friends formed a band called X-Cetra and burned an album onto a few CDs.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • The company released a video showing the hatching chicks.
    Devika Rao, TheWeek, 28 May 2026
  • Remove trash and food scraps, which can attract predators that may prey on eggs and chicks.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 26 May 2026
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“Teener.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teener. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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