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teenager

noun as in adolescent

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Two thirds of them also gave us data on the ages and genders of children involved - and those figures revealed that almost 80% of offences were carried out by boys, the vast majority teenagers.

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“I was happy to hear it wasn’t some dumb teenagers, because we thought that it was fireworks,” said Matt Kunitz, who lives in Pacific Palisades.

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He said he first met the parents in 1995, before Rinderknecht was born, but watched him grow up to a teenager, which was about the last time he saw him.

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Would you say your look has changed since you were a teenager?

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It marked the first time since the teenager was stabbed by a gang while waiting at a bus stop in Eltham, south-east London, that any of his killers admitted their involvement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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