as in teenager
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
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Recent Examples of teen
The search for lads to play the young teen began a few months ago.
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
Say, for example, did COVID, a global pandemic, change the delivery of health care, parenting strategies, long-term career goals, how much time teens spend in their bedrooms, or decisions about having children?
—Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
On Wednesday, Mosseri said that any implication that Instagram specific targets teen users to maximize profits was false.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
Crystal anticipates offering kids and teens programming on select voyages when passenger numbers warrant.
—Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
Say, for example, did COVID, a global pandemic, change the delivery of health care, parenting strategies, long-term career goals, how much time teens spend in their bedrooms, or decisions about having children?
—Wendy Nelson Espeland, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
On Wednesday, Mosseri said that any implication that Instagram specific targets teen users to maximize profits was false.
—Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
Crystal anticipates offering kids and teens programming on select voyages when passenger numbers warrant.
—Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teen
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That kind of confidence from a teenager could easily have aged poorly.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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In the book, Cathy is a teenager at the time of her death.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
13 Feb. 2026
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As a preteen, Penelope met people online through the gaming site Roblox, which Sokolowski sought to monitor.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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The man set to become one of the world’s youngest artificial intelligence billionaires started his entrepreneurial journey as a bored preteen living in Los Angeles.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Maybe your tween is now definitely a teen, and what worked in the past is not quite as effective today.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
9 Feb. 2026
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That transition is likely one of the reasons Welch spent the night surrounded by people eager to get a word in—though the rangy scribe was often seen looking over the heads of his hangers-on, trying to catch the eye of his tween nephew, who noted that this was his first-ever fashion show.—
Eve Batey,
Vanity Fair,
7 Feb. 2026
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The goal is to engage kids in learning about history and civic engagement while putting them on a path to potentially work in the music industry, said the department’s Chief Academic Officer Irene Parisi.—
Theo Peck-Suzuki,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2026
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Early life as a theater kid Van Der Beek, who was raised in Cheshire, Connecticut, started acting at 13 after suffering a concussion playing football that prevented him from playing for a year on doctor’s orders.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Feb. 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 multimedia exposure drew the adoration of the era’s teenyboppers, who raced to spend their allowance money on T-shirts, lunch boxes and magazines featuring the face of Bubblegum Bobby, as he was known.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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Ward said that love of adrenaline was passed down to her, especially as a youngster.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2026
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Christie was asked if the team’s front office influenced his decision to play the youngsters down the stretch.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Choose the one that works best for your adolescent.—
Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Driscoll’s workbook on mental health care for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes also walks through various strategies, including communication and problem-solving skills.—
Lauren J. Young,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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Dashboard camera video showed Newton, who had been behind the truck, pulled up to the passenger side of the white van, occupied by Nelson, Fairchild, Thorns and two juveniles, and immediately opened fire.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2026
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Police said the juvenile on foot apologized for the vehicle being parked in the driveway before entering it and fleeing, followed by the second vehicle.—
Garrett Behanna,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teen. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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