adolescence

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The second epoch, adolescence, is marked by continued growth of white matter.

From Science Daily

Unsurprisingly adolescence starts around the onset of puberty, but this is the latest evidence suggesting it ends much later than we assumed.

From BBC

It was, he writes, “a childhood and adolescence not so much of abject poverty as of poverty of outlook, of ambition,” and the girl got out as soon as she could.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Yellowjackets “are characters who got through most of high school, learning that hard terrible lesson in female adolescence, that you’re not the subject of your own story.”

From New York Times

Even though they worked very hard to shield me from all this, I spent a lot of time in adolescence, I think, learning to read between the lines.

From Los Angeles Times