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"teens" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often adolescents (11 letters).
Definitions
all the numbers that end in ‘-teen’
Word origin
The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.
Used in a sentence
“The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.”
“She is in her teens.”
“a youngster just out of his teens”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Youths”5 letters
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