underage

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Recent Examples of underage Jodi Harding was certified to run but has since suspended her campaign after sheriff's reports detailing underage drinking at her home were made public. Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025 Examples include consistently missing school, running away, underage drinking and curfew violations. Caitlin Cavanagh, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025 Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing underage accounts to an automatic private mode. Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025 Critics also argue that adults are capable of deciding for themselves whether to use the products and that the city should instead focus on ensuring that kids and underage buyers don't buy nicotine in the first place. Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for underage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underage
Adjective
  • But the threat of annihilation has done nothing to slow them in their teenage rituals.
    Robert Lloyd, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • That pattern continued into her teenage years.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, or WIC, offers food benefits, breastfeeding services and nutrition education to 65,000 Arkansas women, infants and children younger than five.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Every young solo traveler should heed these nine tips.
    Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of them see it as a serious sign of lack of compatibility, rather than a minor difference in opinion.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Given the gale force NE'rly winds some minor soundside coastal flooding (up to 1-2 ft) may also occur starting with the Tue afternoon high tide cycle as well.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This chain was founded in Nagoya in 2010 and takes a more modern, youthful spin on the traditional izakaya experience.
    Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2025
  • As Zuckerberg in Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, Strong will be assuming a role that was played with nervy, youthful pique by Jesse Eisenberg back in 2010.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Biden Administration's contrary position depended on the obvious fallacy that providing testosterone to treat a boy's endocrine disorder is the 'same treatment' as using the drug to disrupt the normal physical development of an adolescent girl suffering from psychological distress.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Did an adolescent Bruce really have to walk into bars and collect his father, at the urging of his mother?
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • One thing Dewan wasn’t expecting about the preteen years?
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike the High School Musical franchise—whose third film received a theatrical release—few modern preteen narratives reach that level of success.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • According to the outlet, Sears was airlifted to a hospital following injuries sustained in the crash, while a juvenile passenger sitting in the back was also taken for medical treatment.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Today, much of the building sits empty in north Charlotte, and local teenagers charged with crimes are sent to a state juvenile facility in Cabarrus County.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Noah's sister-in-law Esther (Jackie Tohn), the Jewish character portrayed most insultingly last year, has thankfully been softened and refined, and has somehow become the lone voice of reason amongst a group of immature idiots.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Stem cells are immature cells that have the ability to turn into insulin-producing beta cells and to produce more cells like themselves.
    Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Underage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underage. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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