underage

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Recent Examples of underage Police said the 18-year-old and four other underage suspects were arrested in San Jose on May 1, and that the remaining teen was arrested in Livermore. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 May 2025 The complaint cites recent research that nearly 2 percent of middle and high school students report using nicotine pouches, and a separate survey where more than two-thirds of underage respondents reported Zyn as their favorite brand of tobacco pouches. Mathew Schumer, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2025 All posts with the underage creator have been deleted from the Bop House page, though Rockelle and Rain’s personal posts are still up. Sara Belcher, People.com, 1 May 2025 As Forbes reported in March, right before the suit was filed, Passes banned all underage creators and purged the site of their content. Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for underage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underage
Adjective
  • Of course, teenage passions don’t always translate into future employment.
    Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 12 May 2025
  • By half time, though, Barca led 4-2 via a brace from Raphinha and goals from Eric Garcia and teenage prodigy Lamine Yamal.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Adjective
  • Kruger had been an Akin superfan ever since his breakout Head-On — a gritty, violent love story about a young German-Turkish woman trying to break free of her religious, restrictive family — which won Berlin’s Golden Bear in 2004.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • The doctors had started collaborating in 2023, working on ways to correct genetic mutations in young children with ultra-rare diseases.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • In some cases, lawyers said students had their legal statuses altered for minor traffic violations, such as unpaid parking tickets.
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 16 May 2025
  • Nina and Jim are forced to work overtime to re-center key story components that get lost amid more minor twists and turns.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • At 34 years old, Stockman's youthful assurance and irreverence for sacred cows of all kinds soon upset many of his former colleagues on the Hill.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 17 May 2025
  • This bit of Broadway excellence (a product of its time, of course) is being produced in intimate fashion by the Blank Theatre Company, which has cast the show mostly with youthful actors, all of whom throw themselves at the material with much exuberance.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • The teenage triggerman was aiming at an adolescent rival who had punched him moments earlier, police said.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
  • One of a handful of practicing physicians in the state legislature, Weber Pierson is leaning heavily on her experience as a pediatric and adolescent gynecologist who treats children with reproductive birth defects — one of only two in Southern California.
    Kaiser Health News, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • An older woman describes her video of her four-year-old and preteen daughters playing in the street.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2025
  • Trachtenberg was best known in her younger years for her breakout as the titular preteen lead in the 1996 movie adaptation of Louise Fitzhugh's children's novel Harriet the Spy as well as stints on the Nickelodeon sitcom The Adventures of Pete & Pete and the soap opera All My Children.
    Megan McCluskey, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • McManus said the boy is also facing charges of terrorism and is currently being held at a local juvenile detention facility.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 15 May 2025
  • The three juvenile suspects are also charged with murder, attempted armed robbery and second-degree burglary.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • Many organizations grapple with obstacles such as disconnected data, internal roadblocks, misaligned objectives across teams and immature processes.
    Mithun A. Sridharan, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • And anybody that thinks otherwise is just being foolish and immature and childish.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2025

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“Underage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underage. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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