as in teenager
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
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Recent Examples of teen
Three other teens in the vehicle were hospitalized with moderate to major injuries, and investigators said speed was a factor.
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Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
Among teens who reject AI, the critique shows up with striking consistency.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Meta’s Teen Accounts settings provide default privacy protections, content restrictions and time limit reminders for teen users.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
The search was suspended for the night on Tuesday, but crews went back out on Wednesday morning and spent hours looking for the teen.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 20 May 2026
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Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
Among teens who reject AI, the critique shows up with striking consistency.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 May 2026
Meta’s Teen Accounts settings provide default privacy protections, content restrictions and time limit reminders for teen users.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 20 May 2026
The search was suspended for the night on Tuesday, but crews went back out on Wednesday morning and spent hours looking for the teen.
—Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 20 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teen
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The teenager died on May 15 and her body was taken from the hospital by specialized teams and taken directly to the cemetery for a secure burial.—
Justin Kabumba,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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Investigators from its major crimes unit believe the fire was deliberately set, police said, and one of the teenagers — a 15-year-old girl — is facing charges of arson causing damage to property and possession of incendiary material.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
22 May 2026
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Jeffries remembers that, in his preteen years, his mother, Laneda, was often mugged on her way home from work.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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While mostly faithful to the book, this Lord of the Flies smartly adjusts its story of midcentury schoolboys stranded on a desert island for an episodic medium by filtering each installment through the perspective of a different preteen character.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
4 May 2026
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In the summer of 2000, four tween friends formed a band called X-Cetra and burned an album onto a few CDs.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
15 May 2026
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He’s been asked to take custody following the death of Arlo’s mother, making this something of a Baby Boom situation, albeit with a tween rather than an infant.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
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The kid from Sin City looked like a winner from the first pull, gaining 777 receiving yards with three TDs as a rookie.—
Tim Graham,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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Many other people reject formal education (for other people, though usually not for their own kids) as unnecessary to attaining the highest ranks of wealth and power.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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At the time, Jackson was pop’s fastest-rising star, having bridged the teenybopper mania of the Jackson 5 with mature disco-soul hits on his 1979 solo breakthrough, Off the Wall.—
Greg Poole,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 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 Ducks have high-ceiling youngsters blossoming into stars who should be the nucleus of future playoff teams.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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More youngsters are getting into the game, as well.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
14 May 2026
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Gadd gained almost 90 pounds to play adult Ruben (Stuart Campbell in flashbacks), the fractured older-brother figure of Niall (Jamie Bell as an adult; Mitchell Robertson as an adolescent), while their mothers date each other.—
Savannah Walsh,
Vanity Fair,
14 May 2026
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The epitome of an enfant terrible, Rimbaud was a rebellious adolescent with a tempestuous personal life (ask fellow poet Paul Verlaine).—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
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Polk County has a curfew in place for juveniles, which is for teens under 17.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2026
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About two hours before the shooting at the mosque, San Diego police received a call involving the 17-year-old suspect, about a runaway juvenile, according to Wahl.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teen. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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