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- adjective Younger than
teenage ; often specifically of an age shortly before the teens, such as 10-12.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Within two weeks I was out the door and on my own with my preteenage son.
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Or, as more and more research is telling us, to preteenage girls and even children, because the demographics for eating disorders are dropping to those age groups.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Unattainable Lightness of Being: Eating Disorder Madness 2010
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Faithful as it is, the movie will remind readers that much of Ishiguro's story concerns his characters 'preteenage years.
Never Let Me Go: Ishiguro, Mulligan Speak About The Movie 2010
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Faithful as it is, the movie will remind readers that much of Ishiguro's story concerns his characters' preteenage years.
Never Let Me Go: Ishiguro, Mulligan Speak About The Movie The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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That alone would make it a collector's item, but it's particularly notable because the ostensible premise of Nabokov's best-known novel ( "ostensible" because Lolita is not simply about an older man's affair with a preteenage girl) caused a scandal that kept the book itself from finding an American publisher for nearly three more years.
The Believer 2001
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That alone would make it a collector's item, but it's particularly notable because the ostensible premise of Nabokov's best-known novel ( "ostensible" because Lolita is not simply about an older man's affair with a preteenage girl) caused a scandal that kept the book itself from finding an American publisher for nearly three more years.
The Believer 2001
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She has been told that he is a rapist, and that he abuses the preteenage girls who are cult members.
NYT > Home Page By JANET MASLIN 2011
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She has been told that he is a rapist, and that he abuses the preteenage girls who are cult members.
NYT > Home Page By JANET MASLIN 2011
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Andrea Morales/The New York Times Margaret has long since washed the neon orange streaks out of her hair, and my preteenage years are as dim a memory as Sassy magazine.
NYT > Home Page By ANIKA CHAPIN 2011
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"But it is not abuse or neglect to protect the innocence of preteenage children or to teach one's children more conservative, as opposed to more liberal, moral values."
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