underage

Definition of underagenext

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Recent Examples of underage Nevertheless, the breach exposed details about underage students since Canvas is also widely used by K-12 school districts. Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 8 May 2026 Adams’ first deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, had directed the firm to find a way to keep underage riders off of Citi Bikes, citing an Op-Ed in this newspaper by venture capitalist and political strategist Bradley Tusk. Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026 As the crash subsided, police said the Mercedes caught fire and responding police officers pulled the driver and underage passenger from the burning wreck. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 4 May 2026 Ones who sell to underage people, typically at gun shows. Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for underage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underage
Adjective
  • Noddin encouraged parents and guardians to speak to their teenage children about takeover events and the risks and consequences that could accompany them.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026
  • The New York Times found that many of the minors, mostly teenage boys, were exploited by sponsors, who illegally put them to work in various factories, food processing plants and as roofers.
    Robin Abcarian, Mercury News, 14 May 2026
Adjective
  • The 76ers have one of the best young backcourts in the league in Tyrese Maxey and VJ Edgecombe, and the expectations of the Philadelphia fan base are high.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Apart from the Syrian with the fire extinguisher, there were no young or middle-aged men.
    Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
Adjective
  • The Chicago Cubs Triple-A affiliate had a night game Friday, and the infielder wanted the extra time to rest about a month into the grueling minor-league season.
    Andy Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • The recent Mother’s Day confrontation at Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse in Little Rock arrived accompanied by cellphone footage, influencer commentary, competing eyewitness narratives, reaction videos and enough online forensic analysis to qualify as a minor branch of cable-news jurisprudence.
    Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 23 May 2026
Adjective
  • The three years of maturation soften the raw cane character while preserving a bright, youthful profile.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Most accounts of the era blame greed—a new ethic of cupidity that displaced whatever youthful idealism remained from the 1960s.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Adjective
  • The film follows Dudley, an adolescent frog desperate to break free from the iron grip of his father Arthur, the mayor of frog town.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2026
  • But the idea at the heart of Curry Barker’s new horror film, Obsession, has an endearingly adolescent, back-to-basics simplicity.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 May 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
  • The victims — a man, woman and juvenile male — were all found with gunshot wounds.
    Katie Langford, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
  • Tensions between Rian and Patrick flare when Rian drunkenly mentions a brief fling with Shiv, though the film’s clunky edit, which gives little room for the performances to breathe and play out organically within their contexts, makes these frictions feel stilted and juvenile.
    Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 22 May 2026
Adjective
  • There’s so much regulation coming our way aimed at removing any sort of greenwashing, but even if that is successful, the customer is still immature.
    Elektra Kotsoni, Vogue, 8 May 2026
  • On top of that, the immature grubs chew through grass roots and create dead patches in your lawn.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 7 May 2026

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“Underage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underage. Accessed 25 May. 2026.

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