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After a juvenile manta ray coasted by, wings flapping, Sasso raised his arms in a mock touchdown celebration.

At first, juvenile and young adult titles were a priority, Potash explains, followed by readers “seeking to comfort, educate, and delight themselves during their shelter-in-place periods.”

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Without a standalone juvenile justice department, the state’s responsibilities are limited and scattered across the agency.

In May, Grendell sent Stacy Hartman’s two teenage sons to juvenile detention after they refused a court-ordered visit with their father.

Rattray suspects that the turtles are likely returning to areas they identified during their juvenile “lost years” as good habitats with few predators and lots of food.

A car was indeed dispatched, with no mention that the suspect was possibly a juvenile and that the gun might be a toy.

Officers were responding to a report of a missing juvenile girl, and found her in the house of Carey Smith-Viramontes.

Sixty of those 700 are “juvenile lifers,” men who came in as adolescents and are serving a life term.

I was also the front for a juvenile delinquent roaming the streets of New York City and using me as a parental alibi.

When a 16-year-old takes on that wide-eyed, touched-for-the-very-first-time role, it all comes off as a tad more…juvenile.

I travelled first-class on a pass with my father, and great was my juvenile pride.

Shakespeare was one of her favourite books at this time, and she took delight in juvenile attempts at personifying the characters.

She took more pleasure in her pupils literary efforts, and called him in fun the juvenile Poushkin.

Nothing can be more juvenile or paltry than the works of the native Belgians here exhibited.

Juvenile delinquency itself has been the subject of much research (especially in the United States) during the past fifty years.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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