adolescence
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It’s difficult to go from elementary school and childhood—where everyone is roughly the same—to middle school and adolescence, when everyone is growing up at different rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Not ironically, and not only in the nostalgic way one loves things that arrived alongside an adolescence spent under fluorescent lighting.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Autistic girls without co-occurring intellectual disabilities tend to be diagnosed significantly later than their male counterparts, often not until adolescence or later.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"We should enjoy adolescence," Dr Busby says, "but they can't do what they enjoy doing, what their peers are enjoying doing."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
His body was rearranging itself toward manhood, and he was shaken by the veering winds of adolescence.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing adolescence
Power Suffix: -escence
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