underage

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Recent Examples of underage According to the criminal complaint: Officers were dispatched to the park around 9:30 p.m. for a report of a man who had inappropriate contact with two underage boys near Portland Road. Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 25 July 2025 Johnson’s announcement came after the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Justice Department would meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for charges including trafficking underage girls to Epstein. Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025 Mayes seeks to dissolve both companies, citing violations of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act and deceptive practices targeting underage customers. Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 9 July 2025 Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to soliciting an underage prostitute. Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 18 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for underage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underage
Adjective
  • When a health department subsequently refused to change the gender of a teenage transgender girl on the birth certificate, the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sued the governor for allegedly violating the equal protection and privacy clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
    Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 24 July 2025
  • Based on the 2021 May Cobb novel of the same name, the two women navigate everything from affairs to high-stakes crime after Sophie is arrested on suspicion of murder of a teenage girl named Abby Jackson (Madison Wolfe).
    Nicole Briese, People.com, 23 July 2025
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
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • At the very worst, an immature 18-year-old makes a horrific decision on a whim to deface his or her torso with a tableau of repulsive images that could potentially cause medical complications later in life.
    Scott Liftman, Boston Herald, 25 July 2025
  • The researchers showed how the interplay between a baby's rising sleep pressure and immature circadian rhythms can create seemingly erratic nap behavior that, in reality, follows a mathematically predictable pattern.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025

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“Underage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underage. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.

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