teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage More than 30 years after Austin police found four teenage girls brutally murdered inside a local yogurt shop, HBO is re-examining the case in its upcoming documentary series The Yogurt Shop Murders. Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Aug. 2025 Investigators on Thursday arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of homicide in a shooting that killed another teen more than two months ago in Sacramento’s Meadowview neighborhood. Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2025 In that version of the movie, Death was a teenage girl, Sexton was a teenage boy. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 31 July 2025 This party could easily be pulled off at an event space or a public park, but there was something nice about not having to worry about the weather or cleaning up after teenage boys for the weekend. Alesa Andrew, Parents, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for teenage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenage
Adjective
  • Zendesk now is looking to hire young professionals and work alongside the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University to develop talent and bring them into the company.
    Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 29 July 2025
  • The restaurant is frequented by a young late-night crowd that eats under rattan pendant lights.
    Lyndsay C. Green, Freep.com, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • This thriller is about a reporter, fresh out of a psych hospital, returning to her small hometown and complicated family to cover the murders of two preteen girls.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 24 July 2025
  • Officers found a preteen boy in critical condition.
    Ryan Murphy, IndyStar, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Globally, obesity in adults has more than doubled since 1990, with adolescent rates quadrupling, the World Health Organization reported.
    Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 23 July 2025
  • Cutting between the two timelines, Washington Black bears witness simultaneously to the very first steps in Wash’s adolescent coming-of-age, and the finishing stages of it.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • Rustad, who was between 19 and 22 years old at the time of the rapes, was denied youthful parole last year and is no longer eligible to receive it.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2025
  • Purpose-built for the continent’s youthful and urban population, the development fuses inclusive public spaces with long-term economic opportunity.
    Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison term after being convicted in 2021 of grooming underage girls for Epstein to abuse.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 30 July 2025
  • One of those workers, Trump said, was Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein accuser who said she was recruited by his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, when Giuffre was an underage teenager working as a locker-room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • The club insisted Isak was left behind because of a minor thigh problem but The Athletic reported on Thursday sources, speaking anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly, indicated the forward favoured being omitted amid his uncertain future.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 26 July 2025
  • More Songs is, in effect, Eno’s debut as a capital-P producer, notwithstanding some minor early efforts and, of course, David Bowie’s landmark sessions for Low and Heroes.
    Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • In fact, juvenile arrests for violent felonies — including many in and around transit — increased in both 2023 and 2024, but these offenses were largely excluded from public crime data.
    Marc Molinaro, New York Daily News, 25 July 2025
  • On the morning of the robberies, according to court documents, there were text messages between Toombs and a person believed to be the juvenile, planning to rob mail carriers that day.
    Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 24 July 2025

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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