as in teenager
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
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Recent Examples of teen
Most of the group turned back, but the teen decided to try it out, reportedly relying on her experience, according to On The Verge.
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Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Baltimore County officials are now calling for a review of how Kenwood High School uses the AI gun detection system and why the teen ended up in handcuffs despite school safety officials quickly determining there was no weapon.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
The lawsuit was filed to protect students and teens who share photos online and to show how easily AI tools can exploit their images.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
An update on the teen's condition was not immediately available Thursday.
—Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Mark Gray, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Baltimore County officials are now calling for a review of how Kenwood High School uses the AI gun detection system and why the teen ended up in handcuffs despite school safety officials quickly determining there was no weapon.
—Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
The lawsuit was filed to protect students and teens who share photos online and to show how easily AI tools can exploit their images.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
An update on the teen's condition was not immediately available Thursday.
—Violet Ikonomova, Freep.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teen
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We were bullied, after all, by the older teenagers who beat us on a regular basis, bloodied our mouths with one punch.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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With two teenagers, Short's grocery bill is about $1,100 a month.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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McNicoll’s compassionate, immersive writing has wide appeal for preteen and teen readers, both those neurotypical and neurodivergent.—
Sara Rowe Mount,
Parents,
15 Oct. 2025
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Hailey Brown, 26, began watching YouTube as a preteen on her iPod Touch in Springfield, Missouri.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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The streamer does have hits in the tween and teen space, including movie juggernaut KPop Demon Hunters and ongoing series XO, Kitty, produced by Paramount TV Studios, Geek Girl, My Life With the Walter Boys and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Marla Schaefer and her sister — their father founded the firm — had the pulse on that tween customer.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
24 Oct. 2025
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The key to raising emotionally resilient kids is the ability to repair.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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Keaton is survived by her two kids, daughter Dexter, 29, and son Duke, 25.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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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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The Penguins, who are strongly considering keeping the 18-year-old Kindel and the 19-year-old Brunicke in the NHL all season, don’t want the youngsters playing 82 games.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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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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Twenge has spent much of the past decade warning parents about the risks of giving young adolescents unlimited access to smartphones and social media.—
Tom Huddleston Jr.,
CNBC,
5 Oct. 2025
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Nearly all arrested were adults, with only 34 juveniles arrested by the task force.—
David Ferrara,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
24 Oct. 2025
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In March, a 16-year-old who was reported missing from Vista Maria was found more than a month later in the home of a 62-year-old Dearborn Heights man who pleaded guilty to criminal charges that included harboring a juvenile.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Teen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teen. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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