as in teenager
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Recent Examples of tween
Girl Scouts, book clubs and tweens buzzed the joint like a Bronx quinceañera.
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Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2025
Like many others, Zachary Quinto experienced awkward and embarrassing moments during his tween years.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
With an emphasis on the outdoors, the club immerses kids and tweens ages three to 12 in Hawaiian culture, with activities such as lei making, koi fish feeding, and shell combing on the property’s private beach.
—Gina Kramer, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
As first reported by our sister site Deadline, the streamer has removed a bunch of series made for children and tweens, including the former Nickelodeon sitcom about high school friends who become a wildly successful boy band.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Dec. 2024
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Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2025
Like many others, Zachary Quinto experienced awkward and embarrassing moments during his tween years.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
With an emphasis on the outdoors, the club immerses kids and tweens ages three to 12 in Hawaiian culture, with activities such as lei making, koi fish feeding, and shell combing on the property’s private beach.
—Gina Kramer, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
As first reported by our sister site Deadline, the streamer has removed a bunch of series made for children and tweens, including the former Nickelodeon sitcom about high school friends who become a wildly successful boy band.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tween
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His 11 Premier League goals that calendar year were the most by a teenager since Wayne Rooney in 2005, including a hat-trick over Newcastle United that September.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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His performance as the troubled teenager landed him a Best Actor nomination at the Inside Soap Awards in 1999.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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But then, footage from her own surveillance cameras shows the kids deliberately taunting her, shaking their butts in her direction.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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On a regular day to get the kids out and on their way, my alarm is set to 6:55.—
Eileen Finan,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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Research published in 2014 in the Journal of Adolescence highlights that adolescents who are high in rejection sensitivity are more likely to perceive their romantic partners as being conflictual, even when the interactions are neutral or non-hostile.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Nicotine, the primary chemical in cigarettes, is highly addictive, and the developing minds of adolescents may be especially vulnerable.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Studiocanal has unveiled first images for French director Gilles de Maistre’s upcoming feature The Desert Child retelling the true story of a youngster raised by ostriches in the Sahara, ahead of launching the movie at the EFM.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
5 Feb. 2025
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The teen was one of two youngsters busted in connection with the Jan. 25 subway hijacking.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
4 Feb. 2025
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Five juveniles on e-bikes were riding around the parking lot and almost hit a pedestrian.—
Isha Trivedi,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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Some Bills fans even started raising money toward a charity for juveniles with diabetes that Andrews supports.—
Sam Cohn,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Girl with the Needle portrays that girl as a blonde moppet named Erena (Avo Knox Martin) to whom Karoline becomes a surrogate mother.—
Esther Zuckerman,
TIME,
6 Dec. 2024
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So sometimes Poppa’s House wants to focus on different generational views on child-rearing, since Junior and Nina have a pair of cute moppets.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Oct. 2024
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Favorite hobbies: Taking my kids to the pool, family trips, dance party with my little kiddos.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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But the thought of a person who spreads the kind of dishonesty, quackery and junk science that Kennedy habitually does — especially about our precious kiddos — is nothing short of stomach churning.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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My daughter’s friends, mostly third- and fourth-graders, invest significant amounts of time in dance and gymnastics, in baseball and martial arts, in after-school Mandarin and kiddie architecture.—
Lauren Hilgers,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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The Boca Raton Boca Raton, Florida For kids staying at The Boca Raton, paradise comes in the form of whimsical kids’ clubs, a 450-foot lazy river, an interactive splash zone, poolside kiddie cabanas, and a surf simulator.—
Gina Kramer,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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