as in teenager
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Combined with the concurrent furor over tween girls asking their parents for anti-aging products and 10-year-olds taking over Sephora, there’s a general sense that kids today are freaking out about wrinkles and retinol way more than anyone else was at their age.
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Vox Staff, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
Welcome to the Dollhouse Year: 1995 Run Time: 88 minutes
Director: Todd Solondz
Todd Solondz’s off-kilter coming-of-age tale follows the adventures of Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo), a lonely tween navigating a particularly brutal suburban hellscape.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Five Below With about 1,700 stores, Five Below is a retailer that caters to teens and tweens.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Disneyland and Walt Disney World’s websites describe the ride’s audience as kids, tweens, teens and adults.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
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Vox Staff, Vox, 10 Jan. 2025
Welcome to the Dollhouse Year: 1995 Run Time: 88 minutes
Director: Todd Solondz
Todd Solondz’s off-kilter coming-of-age tale follows the adventures of Dawn Weiner (Heather Matarazzo), a lonely tween navigating a particularly brutal suburban hellscape.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
Five Below With about 1,700 stores, Five Below is a retailer that caters to teens and tweens.
—John Dorfman, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Disneyland and Walt Disney World’s websites describe the ride’s audience as kids, tweens, teens and adults.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tween
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Yet the character genuinely loves his family, including younger siblings Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), a college student, and teenager Lochlan (Sam Nivola).—
Bryan Alexander,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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The teenager, who is heading to play golf competitively at the University of Miami, wore the company’s Luxe Lounge mid-weight quarter-zip pull over.—
Mikelle Street,
WWD,
18 Feb. 2025
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Scammers — with access to kids’ names and school information — are tricking parents into paying for bogus SAT and ACT prep materials.—
Jan Diaz,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s executive order that would, if enacted, withhold federal funding from institutions, including medical schools and hospitals, that provide gender affirming-care to kids is also creating concern among institutions providing that type of treatment.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
18 Feb. 2025
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Thirty-six percent of adolescents were overweight in 2022, according to data from the California Health Interview Survey at UCLA.—
Teri Sforza,
Orange County Register,
12 Feb. 2025
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The study did not look at surgeries among transgender adolescents.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 2025
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Bentaleb, a native of Lille who spent time at the club’s academy as a youngster before joining them permanently in 2023, has also played for German club Schalke and has 52 caps for Algeria, playing in the 2014 World Cup.—
Sam Joseph,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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At some point, the ideologies must combine — youngsters with little to no pro experience need more first-team minutes.—
Braidon Nourse,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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The second juvenile, Spencer said, was in custody in Harris County on Wednesday.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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The eldest of the juveniles admitted to voluntary manslaughter and home invasion robbery at a hearing in April 2023.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
21 Feb. 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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For the last few years, my grownup kiddo and I have carved out a weekend in Palm Springs to hike, bike, hit the museums and shops and dine around town.—
Leslie Kelly,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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According to Carleton, complimenting kiddos for complying with clothing directions is key to getting cooperation.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
20 Feb. 2025
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New rides: Up, Up and Away in the kiddie section, according to midway operator Reithoffer Shows.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
13 Aug. 2024
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As by-the-numbers as these kiddie sports comedies get, this one is particularly empty and rote.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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“Tween.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tween. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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