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But as the title character and a partial avatar for Williamson — who had similarly spent his own teen years dreamily pining and aspiring to be a filmmaker — Dawson was the boy-next-door pillar around which the show orbited.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Feb. 2026 -
The teen was taken to a hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening, investigators said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Feb. 2026
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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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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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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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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
Noun
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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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Chicken-sexers are people who rapidly sort newborn chicks into gendered bins.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Many succulents, like echeveria, sedum, and hens and chicks, are known for their cute, compact size and floral appearance.—
Cori Sears,
The Spruce,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Teener.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teener. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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