as in teen
someone who is between 13 and 19 years old
Their daughter is a teenager. The show is very popular among teenagers.
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Recent Examples of teenager
Officers arrested a male teenager about 6 p.m., about nine hours after the gunfire in the 1900 block of Corteral Avenue in the Montclair District, according to a statement from Oakland police.
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Harry Harris, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Twenties are the new teens for college basketball, with Duke the only team remaining in the 2025 NCAA Tournament with a teenager in its starting lineup.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Police have arrested a teenager in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Waterbury on Thursday night that landed a pedestrian in the hospital in critical condition.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2025
The teenager’s body has been released by the forensic medical teams in Costa Rica and the US Embassy in that country is handling the process of bringing Miller’s remains back to the US, according to Juan Pablo Alvarado, an official in OIJ’s press office.
—Ana Melgar Zuniga and Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
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Harry Harris, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Twenties are the new teens for college basketball, with Duke the only team remaining in the 2025 NCAA Tournament with a teenager in its starting lineup.
—Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Police have arrested a teenager in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Waterbury on Thursday night that landed a pedestrian in the hospital in critical condition.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2025
The teenager’s body has been released by the forensic medical teams in Costa Rica and the US Embassy in that country is handling the process of bringing Miller’s remains back to the US, according to Juan Pablo Alvarado, an official in OIJ’s press office.
—Ana Melgar Zuniga and Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teenager
Noun
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Family and friends of Oscar paid tribute to the teen on Thursday at the site where the body was found on the side of a road in Oxnard.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, two teens in New Hampshire are challenging Trump’s sports order in court, along with a state law that bars them from competing in girls’ leagues.—
Samantha Riedel,
Them.,
4 Apr. 2025
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The nonprofit provides underprivileged kids with a custom birthday cake free of charge.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Seven goats became pregnant; six had miscarriages, but one kid was born—with a malformed lung.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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The dangers of children having phones at school is another issue the show tackles, albeit subtly.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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Born in Georgia, Ridley was the seventh of eight children, and born on Dec. 21, 1952.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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In July last year, Spanish brand Mango launched a campaign generated entirely by AI to promote a new collection of its youth range.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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The entire weekend benefitted First Serve USA, a charity dedicated to empowering youth through education, life skills, training and mentorship.—
Linda Marx,
People.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The challenge moving forward is how to legally make the industry safe for minors.—
Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal,
Parents,
9 Apr. 2025
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Publishing intimate images of minors under 18 could be punished with a fine or up to three years in prison.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 Apr. 2025
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For instance, François Boucher’s eighteenth-century paintings of toddlers engaged in the work of scientists, artists, and philosophers previously formed an odd parenthetical downstairs.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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Danielle and Richard each had one young child at the time — a toddler and a teen, respectively.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Teenager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teenager. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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