as in teen
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She and another teen were caught allegedly stealing motorcycles.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
5 Feb. 2026 -
Instagram in 2024 launched teen accounts that place limits on what users can see, who can message and interact with them, and enable parents to exercise more control over their teens' social media use.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
4 Feb. 2026
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The exhibition is punctuated by large-scale installations including male mannequins performing spectacular stunts atop moving boxes (58% Poliéster, 2025) and schoolbags dropped on the floor as if teenagers had just left the room (Para baixo MUITO, or Down VERY MUCH, 2025).—
K. Desbouis,
Artforum,
6 Feb. 2026
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As a teenager, he DJed at various LA clubs before making his own music.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Yet, on a warm fall afternoon, while playing hide-and-seek with other kids in her mother's yard, the petite 6-year-old girl wearing a sundress vanished.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
5 Feb. 2026
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Over the period from 2002 to 2021, global aid helped reduce child mortality by 39% for kids under 5.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The show sent her to malls to meet fans, fashioning her into a teenybopper starlet.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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The multimedia exposure drew the adoration of the era’s teenyboppers, who raced to spend their allowance money on T-shirts, lunch boxes and magazines featuring the face of Bubblegum Bobby, as he was known.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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From Cosby’s court trials, to cannabis legalization, to the invasion of Ukraine as part of a Russian reunification strategy, to the many death-by-law-enforcement scenarios in American cities, our current moment looks and feels different than what a preteen might have imagined in the ’80s.—
Harvey Young,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2026
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Officer history The officer who patted down the preteen in February 2024 is Ofc.—
Carol Thompson,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Ward said that love of adrenaline was passed down to her, especially as a youngster.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2026
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Christie was asked if the team’s front office influenced his decision to play the youngsters down the stretch.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Maybe your tween is now definitely a teen, and what worked in the past is not quite as effective today.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
9 Feb. 2026
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That transition is likely one of the reasons Welch spent the night surrounded by people eager to get a word in—though the rangy scribe was often seen looking over the heads of his hangers-on, trying to catch the eye of his tween nephew, who noted that this was his first-ever fashion show.—
Eve Batey,
Vanity Fair,
7 Feb. 2026
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For the first time since the opening of the Beyster Family Little Blue Penguins habitat at La Jolla’s Birch Aquarium, a chick is being raised by its penguin parents.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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The little marshmallow chicks managed to hold space for all three big flavors listed on the package.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Teener.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teener. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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