underage

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Recent Examples of underage After another fight, Lauren was charged with third-degree assault, criminal mischief, and underage drinking. Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025 Sally Mann has spurred controversy for years over her photographs of her rural Lexington, Virginia, home, which include nude depictions of her underage children. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025 Despite the probation, the underage pledges, Serrano and Larsen, drank alcohol and moved forward with the skit, prosecutors said. Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 7 Jan. 2025 Listen to this article A 59-year-old New Jersey man who recorded five women and an underage teenager in a Garden State bathroom has been sentenced to five years behind bars. Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for underage 
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Adjective
  • City have had a busy January transfer window with teenage centre-backs Reis and Khusanov arriving from Palmeiras and Lens respectively, while striker Marmoush has joined from Eintracht Frankfurt.
    Colin Millar, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • More context is given to their stories as the films show them with their families and coaches, offering a few snippets of joyful teenage lives with friends, siblings and romantic crushes.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • One young woman at the theater, who lives in Santa Monica, was evacuated and went to a friend’s house in the West Hollywood area before deciding to head over to see The Brutalist.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
  • President-elect Donald Trump's youngest son, 18-year-old Barron, is seemingly following in his father's footsteps by incorporating a real estate business.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Fewer than one in three arrestees were charged with any offense, and most of those were for minor infractions like jaywalking, littering, and blocking sidewalks.
    V.N. Trinh / Made by History, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The epigenetic clock theory suggests aging occurs due to accumulation of epigenetic modifications, or minor changes to the chemical structure of DNA that do not alter the underlying sequence but instead change which genes are on or off.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of the youthful aspirations included travelling to New Zealand, having a YouTube channel, discovering a new species, and meeting an alien.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Heat continues to explore the youthful frontcourt duo of Nikola Jovic and Kel’el Ware.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The travails of these people, including a suspenseful interrogation sequence sending Eunice and her adolescent daughter, their heads wrapped in black sackcloth, to the very place Rubens was seen recently.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Eugene Arnold, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with Ohio State University, says the evidence for some dyes is stronger than others.
    Allison Aubrey, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But then there are puzzlements: more unexplained goats, a freezing-cold field trip and a preteen office worker.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Dear Abby: After several months of weight loss, our preteen daughter was hospitalized after a trip to the ER.
    Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Troubled juvenile hall gets another lifeline after judge punts decision on closure.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Listen to this article A state prison, a juvenile detention facility, three county jails and a federal detention center sit just outside the Border 2 fire’s evacuation zone.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • People with leukemia often have a high number of immature white blood cells called myeloblast, which are not usually present in the blood.
    Doru Paul, Health, 10 Jan. 2025
  • These immature cells can develop into different types of blood cells, including white blood cells (WBCs), central to immune function.8 Getting sufficient and consistent sleep can help make your body more resistant to disease and infection.
    Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 9 Jan. 2025

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