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Recent Examples of Synonyms for preteen-agers
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Earlier this year, two teenagers filed a class-action lawsuit against a Kentucky youth detention center and its administrators, claiming that they were subjected to oppressive isolation, denied basic hygiene, showers, and medications, and forced to listen to a toddler song.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA TODAY,
24 Dec. 2024 -
After later receiving a 911 call from the teenagers, other transit officers identified the man on another subway train and radioed ahead to the next station, where more officers kept the train doors closed, searched each car and ultimately apprehended him without incident, Gulotta said.—
Susan Haigh,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Dec. 2024
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Finally, expect the movement to reduce smartphone use among teens to grow and spread to numerous states that implement phone-free schools.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
24 Dec. 2024
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Things get more interesting when a trio of outcast teens pretend to be Satanists to get people interested in their rock band.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
24 Dec. 2024
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From its premiere in 1983 until its finale in 2006, the show was a beacon for youngsters encouraged to explore beyond a book’s covers and learn about the world surrounding them.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
23 Dec. 2024
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Two of the team’s youngsters, Brett Berard and Will Cuylle, scored to bring the Rangers within a goal in the third period, but New York couldn’t fully dig out of the hole with Quick pulled for an extra attacker.—
Peter Baugh,
The Athletic,
16 Dec. 2024
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So, if juveniles have easier access to firearms, are more willing to commit crimes since they will just be sent home to their parents in most cases, and can’t understand the consequences of their actions mentally, what can and should be done?—
Eric Braun,
Baltimore Sun,
26 Dec. 2024
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But this street is no stranger to juveniles committing car crimes.—
Rebecca Pryor,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Dec. 2024
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Three randy, middle-aged white chicks (Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb) seek illicit thrills.—
Armond White,
National Review,
9 Apr. 2025
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Mr Cañas-Valle identified 23 adults and four chicks nesting and roosting within a single cave on the Chimborazo volcano.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Israel says most of these are militants, but youths throwing stones and people not involved in confrontations have also been killed.—
Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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By the age twenty-one, 20% of autistic youths will have had a police encounter.—
Catherine Tan,
TIME,
20 Dec. 2024
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Snyder once again used his own life and the pure optimism of his children in our real-life divisive world, to create a Batman that lives and breathes on that dynamic need to keep going no matter the circumstances.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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In more than three years of full-scale war, Ukrainian families of children with long-term illness have had to overcome countless challenges.—
Lynsey Addario,
New York Times,
24 Mar. 2025
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