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Recent Examples of underage
Jeffs married as many as 78 wives, including 24 underage girls, and oversaw the abuse of other women and children.
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James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
That savage is now incarcerated for impregnating his own underage daughter.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
Qualifications also differ slightly between both programs, like TANF only being available for families with underage dependents and having stricter work requirements.
—Keisha Rowe, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
The company makes an effort to remove underage accounts when discovered and limit access to adult-only servers (for those 18 years and older), but experts note that these protections are not foolproof.
—Alex Vance, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
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James Mercadante, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
That savage is now incarcerated for impregnating his own underage daughter.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
Qualifications also differ slightly between both programs, like TANF only being available for families with underage dependents and having stricter work requirements.
—Keisha Rowe, Louisville Courier Journal, 21 Oct. 2025
The company makes an effort to remove underage accounts when discovered and limit access to adult-only servers (for those 18 years and older), but experts note that these protections are not foolproof.
—Alex Vance, Parents, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underage
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Familial pairs choose the experimental merge for a variety of reasons, including a mother with Alzheimer’s linking her mind with her daughter; teenage brothers, one terminally ill; a man and his pregnant fiancée; a father and his addict daughter.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Documents gone, Ma embarks on a weeklong rampage while readers also get to know teenage thief Boomba.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC, offers food benefits, breastfeeding services and nutrition education to 65,000 Arkansas women, infants and children younger than five.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 Oct. 2025
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Every young solo traveler should heed these nine tips.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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This was a minor bit of incomprehension on my part.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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He is being charged in juvenile court with evidence tampering and unlawful gun possession by a minor.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Nov. 2025
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The action scenes are tired, and the plot is howlingly predictable, but what’s even worse is that Farrell — despite his youthful, bright-eyed good looks — demonstrates surprisingly little charisma.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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Serrat’s approach to beauty is youthful — and inspired by her own childhood passion for art and color.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
26 Oct. 2025
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The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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Did an adolescent Bruce really have to walk into bars and collect his father, at the urging of his mother?—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Another instructor took advantage of the captive audience to share his political beliefs, with great volume and conviction, to the mostly preteen students.—
The Editors,
Outdoor Life,
30 Oct. 2025
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Tiny baby on billboard: From preemie to preteen Jordyn White was born prematurely, weighing less than three pounds.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
15 Oct. 2025
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Starring Daniel Chen and based on Chen’s life, Bad Boy tells the story of Dean, who is imprisoned in a cruel juvenile detention facility.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025
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In August 2020, five orcas chased a juvenile white shark, pushed it to the surface, and flipped it onto its back.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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Noah's sister-in-law Esther (Jackie Tohn), the Jewish character portrayed most insultingly last year, has thankfully been softened and refined, and has somehow become the lone voice of reason amongst a group of immature idiots.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Stem cells are immature cells that have the ability to turn into insulin-producing beta cells and to produce more cells like themselves.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Underage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underage. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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