teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage The iconic show about the antics of two good-looking Southern cousins in the rural South made actor John Schneider (and co-star Tom Wopat) stars and teenage heartthrobs. Lauren Green, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2025 Ellen is a more passive counterpart to Thomasin, the teenage heroine played by fellow big-eyed blonde Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch, in that she’s also been pathologized by the strictures of her era, her psychic sensitivities interpreted by those around her as signs of hysteria or mental illness. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Jan. 2025 There was a shot where Jasmin [Savoy Brown, who plays teenage Taissa] just ends up grabbing Jackie’s face and takes a big chunk out of her cheek, and all of us are grabbing an arm and eating it off the bone. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025 The fatal crash Pino, who lives in Galloway Glen in Kendall and is president of State Street Realty, a Doral real estate agency, was piloting 12 teenage girls and his wife back to their second home at the gated Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo. Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for teenage 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
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  • Emily, a young American from Chicago living and working in Paris, serves serious wardrobe eye candy.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Yes, fans of the comics shouldn't necessarily be surprised by this, but parents who may be thinking of watching this show with younger viewers should beware.
    DeVonne Goode, Parents, 29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But then there are puzzlements: more unexplained goats, a freezing-cold field trip and a preteen office worker.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Dear Abby: After several months of weight loss, our preteen daughter was hospitalized after a trip to the ER.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 28 Dec. 2024
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  • The travails of these people, including a suspenseful interrogation sequence sending Eunice and her adolescent daughter, their heads wrapped in black sackcloth, to the very place Rubens was seen recently.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Eugene Arnold, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with Ohio State University, says the evidence for some dyes is stronger than others.
    Allison Aubrey, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of the youthful aspirations included travelling to New Zealand, having a YouTube channel, discovering a new species, and meeting an alien.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Heat continues to explore the youthful frontcourt duo of Nikola Jovic and Kel’el Ware.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Ghislaine Maxwell's former London townhouse, where the United Kingdom's Prince Andrew allegedly posed with his arm around the waist of an underage Jeffrey Epstein accuser in 2001, is up for sale again.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Driving the news: The law is meant to prevent underage kids from accessing pornographic websites.
    Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The epigenetic clock theory suggests aging occurs due to accumulation of epigenetic modifications, or minor changes to the chemical structure of DNA that do not alter the underlying sequence but instead change which genes are on or off.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Fewer than one in three arrestees were charged with any offense, and most of those were for minor infractions like jaywalking, littering, and blocking sidewalks.
    V.N. Trinh / Made by History, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
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  • Troubled juvenile hall gets another lifeline after judge punts decision on closure.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The juvenile victim, who was reportedly struck several times, suffered from non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and was taken to Connecticut Children's Medical Center.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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