adolescence
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The two know each other from grade school years earlier but hadn’t been friends, and now they’re gawky teenagers practiced in the supreme virtue of adolescence, which is to be cool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The authors emphasize that adolescence is a key stage for brain development and emotional health.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
I relent that I’m both a lapsed fashion student and someone who spent their adolescence and early teens marveling at Jacobs’ designs and Coppola’s films.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
According to Emily Willoughby, a researcher in behavioural genetics at the University of Minnesota, childhood and adolescence provide a genuine window of opportunity for shaping attitudes.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Her five daughters, who inherited a burning seed, had been lost on the byways of life since adolescence.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vocabulary lists containing adolescence
Power Suffix: -escence
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