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teenager

[teen-ay-jer] / ˈtinˌeɪ dʒər /
NOUN
adolescent
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Antonyms
STRONGEST


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Kelden, a 56-year-old former monk born in India to Tibetan exile parents, moved to China in 1987 as a teenager.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

A teenager shipped off to Harvard at 16.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

But the teenager can barely focus on what he is saying.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

His learning accelerated after being released by Atletico Madrid as a teenager, as his body had not caught up with his footballing brain.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Even though he looks like a teenager, the main guy is bald.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

A third of the 468 lycees for teenagers aged 15 to 17 were to be closed in the Paris region, authorities said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

The idea of one song taking hold among the entire nation’s teenagers is even more ridiculous now that streaming has fractured the musical monoculture.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

In the early 2000s Kelly Watts, like most teenagers, was worried about the way she looked and said she was constantly comparing herself to people around her and models in magazines, she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

I say “meant to” because, like hormonal teenagers writing in diaries, AIs aren’t the most reliable narrators of their inner lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

It’s possible they knew each other as teenagers.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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