How to Use adolescent in a Sentence
- Their children are now adolescents.
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That would be a lot for a lot of adolescents.
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Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2026
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Choose the one that works best for your adolescent.
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Dr. Theresa T. Nguyen,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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For adolescents and young adults.
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Staff Report,
Daily News,
23 Apr. 2026
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These adolescents most often use firearms to end their lives.
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Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Are adolescents using drugs more than in the past?
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Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Feb. 2026
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Who wouldn’t be, coming face to face with one’s own adolescent?
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John Anderson,
WSJ,
10 Mar. 2022
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Here’s what parents and adolescents should know about weight loss drugs.
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Akshay Syal, M.d.,
NBC News,
19 July 2023
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Black adolescents are far less likely than their white peers to seek and find mental health care.
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Annie Ma,
Detroit Free Press,
2 June 2023
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Black children and adolescents are five times more likely to be killed by a gun than their white peers.
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Amanda Joy Calhoun, Md,
Parents,
4 Feb. 2024
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Fiona, then an adolescent, was found guilty of the murder of her mother and served time in prison.
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Maureen Corrigan,
Washington Post,
2 Dec. 2022
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For some adolescents, those tests could be repeated again and again.
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Cnn.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
3 Dec. 2025
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Dozens of adolescents stood at attention in neat rows.
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Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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Studies have also found that adolescents don’t know enough to make an informed choice to smoke.
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Marie Helweg-Larsen,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2026
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Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among adolescents.
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Chicago Tribune,
24 Aug. 2025
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White and black adolescents bought their records in staggering numbers.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
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Treatment guidelines tend to be based on case studies of adolescents and middle-age adults.
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Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Mar. 2024
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The center conducts research and treats thousands of adolescents and young adults per year.
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Michael S. Rosenwald,
Washington Post,
30 Oct. 2023
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But what children and adolescents see online is not the only problem.
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Steven Berkowitz,
Scientific American,
18 Aug. 2023
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As an adolescent, Nico already spoke in the slow, booming tones that would inform her singing voice.
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Brian Dillon,
The New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2022
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Sure, it’s marketed toward adolescents, but there are lifelong lessons here for any age.
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Seth Combs,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Dec. 2023
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Anxiety and depression among adolescents have risen sharply over the past decade.
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Anand Parekh,
STAT,
6 Mar. 2026
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This group includes children and adolescents with health risks and healthy adults under the age of about 60.
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Carma Hassan,
CNN,
29 Mar. 2023
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As an adolescent, he was diagnosed with dyslexia and struggled through school.
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Jen Murphy,
Robb Report,
26 Apr. 2026
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Silva was born in the Amazon and worked as a rubber tapper as an adolescent.
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Arkansas Online,
30 Dec. 2022
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But play looks different for adolescents.
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Kimberly Zapata,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Sofia, a tall adolescent with a pale complexion, was lying in a hospital bed.
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Dana Goodyear,
The New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2023
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For some children and adolescents, their lunch period is scheduled early in the day.
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Dr. Sarah Kinsella,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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However, less known is the role mental health plays in steering children and adolescents to sports.
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Greg Mellen,
Oc Register,
29 Apr. 2026
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Ukraine’s adolescents will soon grow up and be needed to defend their country’s fragile civic unity.
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Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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Witt has known the coach since his adolescent years.
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Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
13 June 2026
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With my first child the love brought on an almost adolescent sense of heartache.
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Ellyn Gaydos
august 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Aug. 2025
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My adolescent cells floated away from poor me and traded places with his.
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Betty Gilpin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Oct. 2025
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Any car that lets the adolescent rattling around inside of me out for a while has got to be good.
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Csaba Csere,
Car and Driver,
21 Mar. 2023
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One by one, with sweaty palms and cracking adolescent voices, the pupils rose and read.
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Jeff Pearlman,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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My parents got divorced, and my mom wasn’t in a good place during our adolescent years.
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Emily J. Shiffer,
Peoplemag,
23 Sep. 2023
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Salaam spent much of his adolescent years behind bars; nearly seven years in prison.
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Suzette Hackney,
USA TODAY,
31 Mar. 2023
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In an adolescent rite of passage, three children climb and hang upside down from the limbs of one of few trees.
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Jake Frederico,
The Arizona Republic,
25 May 2023
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Meanwhile, two black-backs (adolescent males) picked a playful fight with each other.
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Alisandra Puliti,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Feb. 2023
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Ginsburg is under no pretense that the adolescent years are easy — for anyone.
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Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2023
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At her very best, Emily behaves like a petulant pre-adolescent spoiled imp.
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Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
14 Apr. 2026
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Some of her adolescent outbursts and antics (that were so delicious to play).
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Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
29 Mar. 2026
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For any adolescent, a private bedroom is both sanctuary and mood board.
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Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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With his children, three adolescent boys and a 7-year-old girl, Vazquez wants to set a new standard.
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Anna Guaracao,
BostonGlobe.com,
24 Aug. 2023
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Apatow and Feig infused the show with their own adolescent agony.
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Adrienne Lafrance,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Even Michael’s social life is left blank, far beyond his adolescent solitudes.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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My confused adolescent yearnings led me to study Russian for a year at the end of college.
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Merve Emre,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Feb. 2024
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This was not a moment of adolescent recklessness.
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Tracie Thill,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Fred became a part of my adolescent routine, and a respectable-presenting one at that.
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Carolyn Wells,
Longreads,
22 Mar. 2024
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Andor’s adolescent romance with Sàri is a silver lining in a dark place.
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Adam Solomons,
IndieWire,
28 Aug. 2025
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Various areas are trying methods to curb the chaos of these adolescent events.
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Theara Coleman,
TheWeek,
11 May 2026
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That was his most popular record, radio-wise, as an adolescent getting into rock.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
5 Oct. 2023
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Four of them, however, were adopted by their adolescent brothers.
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Time,
17 June 2023
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Instead of croquet games or slam books, the four teen girls of The Craft use spells to help get through their adolescent angst.
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Gwen Ihnat,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Oct. 2025
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No adolescent defiance or child’s anguish was visible on his face now.
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George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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Physical changes are a given for young adolescent girls, but the mental changes are just as worthy of talking about.
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Olivia Bria,
refinery29.com,
2 May 2023
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The adolescent chimps were more likely to take a risk and go for the cucumber or banana container than the adults, the study said.
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Madeline Holcombe,
CNN,
30 Jan. 2023
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Without adolescent uptake, tobacco cannot find new users.
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Katharine Silbaugh,
STAT,
19 May 2026
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Female boto dolphins with their calves and adolescent dolphins usually spend more time in these floodplains than males.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Discover Magazine,
4 Aug. 2023
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Read more about the adolescent biology of sleep patterns.
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NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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