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• n  a preadolescent boy or girl (usually between 9 and 12 years of age)
  little league is intended for the preteens
• s  of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12
  a preteen party
  preteen clothing

• The potty-mouthed-preteen act only took him so far, so at age 11 LaBeouf found an agent.
• Citing some alarming statistics about preteen alcohol abuse, the city has imposed a strict new local law that goes beyond the legislation that currently allows only those over 16 .
• Moving with his family into an old, dark house, troubled preteen Jared (Freddie Highmore) finds a land of fairies and monsters.

• preteenager
• preadolescent

News & Articles

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• More Evidence Links BPA to Childhood Obesity
  Study finds preteen girls who had high levels of common chemical were twice as likely to be overweight
  June 12, 2013 - WebMD
• Source of CO leak traced to hotel pool heater after 3 people die in room above
  State and federal inspectors say they have traced the source of a carbon monoxide leak at the Best Western Hotel in Boone where a preteen boy and elderly couple died in the same room two months apart.
  June 12, 2013 - 14 WFIE Evansville
• Pool becomes focus after CO found in hotel where preteen, elderly couple died
  Officials say they discovered carbon monoxide in a Boone hotel room where a preteen boy died from asphyxia two months after an elderly couple was found dead in the same room.
  June 11, 2013 - WAVE 3 Louisville

Quotes

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• Alison Arngrim in FOXNews
  Promoting her new memoir "Confessions Of A Prairie Bitch," Arngrim said "You have three teenage girls at the worst of the preteen years and you're thrown into this thing and you're in competition, we're child stars :I'm amazed we didn't kill...
• Tonya Lee Williams in Hamilton Spectator
  TV is not kind to older women. Too much of it caters to Britney Spears or preteen vamps,Lee said.