underage

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Recent Examples of underage This is in spite of the fact that data from the Colorado Liquor Enforcement Division shows that liquor stores were 40% more likely to sell alcohol products to underage buyers. Jeff Keener, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2025 Police said these advertisements then attracted several people like Eichorn, who began conversations with undercover agents posting as underage girls. Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025 Court documents filed earlier this week and obtained by PEOPLE show several explicit text messages the married special education teacher and soccer coach allegedly sent to the underage student. Sean Neumann, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025 Operators cannot advertise to college students or any other underage resident. Andrew King, Axios, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for underage
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underage
Adjective
  • Two of the world’s best teenage track and field athletes are confirmed to participate.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Mariah Carey just pulled a classic mom move by embarrassing her teenage son in front of his friends.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Related Stories As Dickens goes over each of Jesus’ miracles and other pivotal moments ahead of his gruesome death, young Walter walks into the biblical passages as an unseen figure watching from the sidelines and becoming enraptured by the tall tales.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • About midway through, his character, searching for a trafficked young woman, poses as a drug dealer looking to score a connection with a local kingpin holding court in the backroom of a biker bar.
    Donald Liebenson, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time of the initial earthquake.
    William B. Davis, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Three other family members, two children and one 19-year-old, suffered minor wounds.
    Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Audiences witness the characters’ lives unfold backward, from their fractured adult friendships to their youthful optimism.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But behind the image of youthful confidence lies a question increasingly whispered by allies and adversaries alike: Can Bardella, who has no experience in government, really lead?
    Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • After reaming her besties out for having not changed at all since their teen years, Laurie reverts back to her adolescent self.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Hope, an adolescent red wolf from one of the cloned litters produced by Colossal.
    Emily Mullin, Wired News, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Alec Baldwin is learning a thing or two from his preteen daughter.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Ride Horseback in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona One May day, saddled atop two small horses perfect for our short frames, my teenage daughter and I followed a Diné woman and her preteen son up the low, brown waters of Chinle Creek and into the deep ochre Canyon de Chelly (pronounced de-shay).
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Adult males, called boars, are emerging from their dens this month, with females and juvenile bears expected to follow in April and early May.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Paulo needed physical therapy to recover from several surgeries to shorten her left leg to the length of her right leg — the difference a consequence of juvenile arthritis.
    Jordan Rau, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • He’s been there; Harper was emotional — at times, immature — as a younger player.
    Matt Gelb, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • From its opening scenes, Severance has presented the procedure the show is named for as a kind of birth, the spawning of a new, immature being.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Underage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underage. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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