juvenile
Example Sentences
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Lifeguards with the Newport Beach Fire Department spotted the sizable — although still juvenile — shark in the waters off 35th Street around 1:15 p.m. and ordered everyone out of the water within a two-mile range.
From Los Angeles Times
“I’m from the hood — you don’t just sign anything. So, I get to reading the papers and it’s talking about some juvenile delinquent California ... case. And I’m like, I’m not even from California,” Dunlap said.
From Los Angeles Times
“That language makes us sound like juveniles, not judges, and it undermines public trust in the courts.”
From Los Angeles Times
North of Stockholm, the Rosersberg prison is making preparations to house children as young as 13 in response to a much-criticised juvenile judicial reform expected to take effect in July.
From Barron's
Both crimes peaked in mid-2023 in Washington, D.C., where authorities said the offenders were often juveniles, and they have since become far less common, along with other types of crime.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
