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teenager

[teen-ey-jer] / ˈtinˌeɪ dʒər /
NOUN
adolescent
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STRONGEST


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Despite the teenager then busting his score, Noppert failed to take advantage and retake the lead.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

A teenager who piloted a dinghy carrying a then-record 165 migrants across the English Channel to the UK has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Dive into a true-crime longread: As a teenager, Winston Walters became a rising reality-TV star for wrestling giant catfish.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

What kind of teenager isn’t playing video games, cracking open bottles of Sparkling Apple Cider or sleeping at midnight on New Year’s Eve?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

When Bert Lewyn, the Jewish teenager forced to work in a Berlin munitions factory, discovered that he was also marked for deportation to a concentration camp, he went into hiding.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

To passersby, we could easily be mistaken for two teenagers hiding in the shadows.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

They worry about teenagers being forced to submit personal information as they go through an age verification process to prove they are old enough to access platforms.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The European Union’s top official said Brussels has plans to stop children under 13 from accessing social networks and restrict what teenagers can do online.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

At the two largest cemeteries, researchers found an unusually large number of children and young teenagers among those who had died.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Malls were a popular meeting place for American teenagers, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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