teenage

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Recent Examples of teenage Last month, four teenage girls were arrested for beating and robbing a 34-year-old woman at the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland. John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024 The book was Boys Adrift, which looks at how environmental changes can affect the hormonal health of teenage boys, among other things. Esha Chhabra, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 The story takes place in Louisville, Ky., where a group of teenage punks partying in a graveyard come face to face with the aftermath of two youths accidentally kicking over a barrel in a top-secret government facility. Katie Rife, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024 The story follows a teenage princess named Ellian (Rachel Zegler) whose parents are turned into giant monsters by a powerful spell, according to a synopsis. Erin Clack, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for teenage 
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  • And if there was damage on younger roofs, insurers were willing to accept a repair instead of a full replacement, Metcalf said.
    Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Ernst, who lives in Middleton, Wis., is the author of 20 historical novels and mysteries for young readers from American Girl, 11 books in the Chloe Ellefson Historic Sites mysteries, and nonfiction history and poetry.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
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  • House was created when director Nobuhiko Obayashi asked his preteen daughter what scared her.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • What started as a consolation prize offered to an older preteen or young teenager who craves technology, communication, and social inclusion has evolved into a sort of gateway device.
    Emily Tate Sullivan, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
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  • In a more recent study, researchers gathered data from nearly 7,000 adolescent school children in Ontario, Canada.
    Carina Woudenberg, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15, their lawyer said Monday.
    Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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  • Kirk is thirty-one; his rise to power has paralleled that of the MAGA movement, for which he’s become a youthful avatar.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Posters of rock bands like Def Leppard, Whitesnake, and Motley Crüe cover the walls, while a youthful Johnny Depp and U2's The Edge add to the 80s vibe.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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  • Phillips allegedly lured underage boys, sometimes as young as 12 or 13, with the promise of meeting famous wrestlers, the lawsuit says.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
  • After that, more girls, many of them fans who claim to have been underage at the time, came forward with their own accounts of inappropriate behaviour by Payne.
    Lucy Ford, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
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  • Over a decade later, the streaming space is filled with entries from major and minor media companies alike.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Walman is dealing with a minor upper-body injury incurred in the first period of Saturday’s 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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  • The company continues to focus on advancing SLK in Phase 3 clinical trials for hidradenitis suppurativa and psoriatic arthritis, with additional trials planned for juvenile HS, palmoplantar pustulosis, and axial spondyloarthritis.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The stalks on the juvenile Arthropleura resemble those of a crab, which could point to the creature having an amphibious youth before becoming terrestrial in adulthood.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024

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“Teenage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenage. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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