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Example sentences for: teen-age

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If you're a teen-age boy, your preoccupation would be pretty normal.
Surely that reflects altered reporting standards, not a seven-year surge in sadistic adults (just as the implausible Justice Department discovery that teen-age drug use doubled in one year reflected a radical rewriting of the survey that year, as the Wall Street Journal pointed out).
The answer, which Bennett mentions only in passing, is that the teen-age fertility rate is down roughly 13 percent since 1990.
The first instance concerns Bennett's discussion of teen-age pregnancy . Unlike unwed pregnancy, which is rising , teen pregnancy is sharply declining . But Bennett leads off his chapter on "Youth Behavior" with the shocking news, presented in large boldface type, that "[b]etween 1990 and 1996, the percentage of all teen-age mothers who are unmarried has increased 12 percent."
In other words, "a teen-age moviegoer's dream" (Anita Gates, the New York Times ) but "utterly uninspired" (Ty Burr, Entertainment Weekly ). (Join an online chat about Urban Legend .)