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He began singing as a teenager.

Most teenagers firmly believe they have the most embarrassing parents in the world.—Allison Pearson

It’s been a tumultuous summer for America’s hottest and fastest-growing social media app, one that’s particularly popular with teenagers.—Scott Nover

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The result is a bare-knuckles portrait of a player who as a teenager rose to the pinnacle of his sport and peak celebrity in Germany, his home country.


—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023




As a teenager, Jewel learned the importance of seeking out happiness.


—Lydia Wang, Women’s Health, 5 Apr. 2023




As a teenager, Joe became inspired to write his own lyrics largely due to Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind.


—Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023




Baby Indiglo started making mixes as a teenager on SoundCloud and Tumblr.


—Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023




First involved in petty crime as a teenager, he was convicted of armed robbery in 1974 at 22 years old and sentenced to seven years in prison.


—Ian Leonard, Fox News, 31 Mar. 2023




If, as a teenager, Prince Harry had written a tell-all memoir claiming the world was against him, this reviewer would have been sympathetic.


—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 30 Mar. 2023




Honorio moved to Houston as a teenager in 1980 and began working as a dishwasher—just like his son Anthony—and moved up as a busser, server and later a cook at several restaurants around Houston.


—Marco Torres, Chron, 30 Mar. 2023




As a teenager, Lloyd Webber wept with emotion upon hearing a radio broadcast of Tosca, the 1900 opera by Puccini.


—Vulture, 28 Mar. 2023


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“Teenager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teenager. Accessed 13 Apr. 2023.

Adolescence

Adolescence [1] is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood.[1][2][3] The period of adolescence is most closely associated with the teenage years,[3][4][5][6] though its physical, psychological and cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later. For example, although puberty has been historically associated with the onset of adolescent development, it now typically begins prior to the teenage years and there has been a normative shift of it occurring in preadolescence, particularly in females.[4][7][8] Physical growth, as distinct from puberty, and cognitive development generally seen in adolescence, can also extend into the early twenties. Thus chronological age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have found it difficult to agree upon a precise definition of adolescence.[7][8][9][10] A thorough understanding of adolescence in society depends on information from various perspectives, including psychology, biology, history, sociology, education, and anthropology.

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十几岁的青少年

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adolescente

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teenager

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किशोरी

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مُرَاهِق

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подросток

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adolescente

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adolescent

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Remaja

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Teenager

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ティーンエージャー

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thiếu niên

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genç

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adolescente

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nastolatek

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adolescent

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έφηβος

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tiener

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tonåring

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teenager
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A teenager is a person whose age is a number that ends in «-teen.» That is, someone between the ages of 13 and 19.

Many teenagers want to rebel.

As a teenager, Tom used to eat bread and lard.

You could pass for a teenager if you wore a T—shirt.

His skin is as firm as a teenager‘s.

The teenager is showing off his new car.

How much time does the average teenager watch TV every day?

Can you remember the time we visited Tom when he was still a teenager?

Tom has been eating at that restaurant since he was a teenager.

I haven‘t felt like this since I was a teenager.

The old man in the wheelchair told me that he knew my mother when she was a teenager.

Mary is still as beautiful as she was when she was a teenager.

She suffered from anorexia as a teenager.

Mary was very beautiful when she was a teenager.

Mary worked as a babysitter when she was a teenager.

A teenager sometimes acts like a baby.

When I was a teenager I had lots of hair on my head and none on my chest. Now it‘s just the opposite.

Tom tried to squeeze into the jeans he had worn when he was a teenager.

My son is only a teenager.

As is commonly known, the smarter person is the one to give in first. That‘s easier for an adult to do than for a teenager. You won‘t be crowned with laurels for winning a fight with your own child.

I thought Tom was a teenager.

You were a teenager then.

Her mother died when she was a teenager.

Tom isn‘t a teenager anymore.

You know what I mean? That‘s being a teenager, right? Teenagers.

You‘re not talking to an idiotic teenager.

There hasn‘t been a spending teenager around this place since he left.

Nevertheless. here‘s the miracle of sweet peasant teenager. noble as the daughter of a king.

It‘s Ms Teenager, please.

The teenager‘s path to salvation through the cross of Jesus.

A teenager. The name‘s Strang.

I mean, how do you tell a six—year—old child his new daddy is a teenager?

Some silly teenager gets wet in the movies and goes home to masturbate.

The teenager was taken across town to Haddonfield Memorial Clinic.

But I think we can all agree that that‘s not some teenager with an identity crisis.

April is a teenager and she lives with me.

Jenny is not a teenager and doesn‘t live with me, but she will when I can afford it.

It takes a lot of money to raise a teenager properly.

Only Susan Campey, our resident teenager.

Probably some child slipped it on, or some teenager put it on for a joke.

Oh, boy, that‘s the oldest—looking teenager I ever saw.

You were the oldest living teenager.

On that teenager in the beach district?

So Sellers had a number going with a suicidal teenager, so?

The Teenager‘s Path to Salvation through the Cross of Jesus.

You look like a typical teenager to me.

Ah, how poignant. I remember being a teenager in love.

Scott and Allison‘s relationship is, I would say, pretty typical to any other teenager‘s relationship, certainly to ones that I‘ve had in the past.

You make me feel like a teenager.

Played a teenager, 1 7 years old, gets married the same night she graduates from high school. to an older man and the guy didn‘t love her.

A teenager robs me, I go. They fondle my kid.

I was a teenager, shy with people.

Well, as a teenager — yet he grows up.

Do you have any idea what a teenager‘s insurance costs?

It‘s not exactly a safe place to be a teenager.

I was a teenager when it was new.

I was a teenager when it was old.

I remember working at a pediatric ward as a teenager and watching children die from diseases like polio, measles, and tetanus — all easily prevented by vaccines.

One day, when I was a teenager named Husni, my name became Ivan.

People first landed on the Moon while I was a teenager, and I turned to other pursuits — journalism, the Internet, startup companies.

No teenager in rebellion against the world or his parents seems able to resist Che‘s alluring image.

Or the teenager disabled by obsessive compulsive disorder.

When a stubborn teenager went up against the mighty lottery authority with its army of auditors and inspectors and initial alibis, this individual, not the system, was the clear winner of the public‘s admiration.

In Bouchareb‘s film, for example, there is not a unified story of the occupation of Algeria, but many points of view that a young French teenager (or French—Algerian teenager) can witness and draw from.

Does a teenager‘s unemployment represent a greater loss to society than that of a single mother or an older worker, who might have been providing an entire family‘s only income?

The loss of the value added produced by a teenager is probably much lower.

teenager

• Their daughter is a teenager.

• The show is very popular among teenagers.