teens

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Matthews told police he had been visiting the Christian Family Centre in Armoy with a youth group when he was approached by Complainant B, then in her teens.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

If we call the cops on teens violating a city curfew, it suggests a cavalier attitude toward the perils of the justice system.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

Rollins clearly kept to that concept throughout his career, from his earliest recordings in the late ’40s, while he was still in his teens, to his work in his 70s and 80s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

In his teens, when he wasn’t sitting in movie theaters watching westerns, he listened to records by Fats Waller and Hawkins.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

With little formal schooling, Washington became a surveyor in his teens, measuring and mapping Virginia’s enormous, unsettled wilderness.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis