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tween

[tween] / twin /


'tween


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But in between, Charlotte, now 43, says they fought over who got the first look at the mail-order catalogs that, at the time, were the first to cater specifically to a tween and teen-girl audience.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

She has channeled that into art, writing the evocative and hilarious tween comedy PEN15.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Claire's, founded in the US, first appeared on British high streets in the late 1990s selling jewellery and accessories mainly aimed at tween and teenage girls, and offering ear piercing services.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

In books, proper tween romance seems rarely greenlighted anymore—the genre that used to fill an entire shelf at Waldenbooks and Borders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

By the time I filled the basket, the Aleut ship had sailed around the wide kelp bed that encloses our island and be tween our two rocks that guard Coral Cove.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

“Speaking of ‘tween heartthrobs, Scott Brown is here.

From MSNBC ● Apr. 24, 2015

Weeping like a ’tween at a Justin Bieber concert, like a cougar at a “Twilight” premiere, like a little leaguer meeting Mickey Mantle.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2012

"How do you deal with comments from managers such as 'I was born in 1962' and people referring to me as a 'tween?"

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2010

Grantland Rice broke down the most important matchups of the upcoming season, calling the Cleveland Bulldogs-Dayton Triangles game slated for Nov. 2 that year a “titanic tussle ‘tween two Gorgons of the gridiron.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2010

I am sick of the ’tween deck, sick of sailing, sick of the storms that come one after another.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone


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