adolescent
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Opera came calling, it was a wild, if exciting, adolescent company.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
When her own mother abandoned her family, Dolly, then an adolescent, took on the care of her younger siblings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Iron deficiency anemia is especially common among pregnant women and adolescent girls in many developing countries.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
Lucio Campos decided to learn it when his adolescent daughter asked to go to South Korea for her 15th birthday.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Still, I was younger than he was and ignorant of the pressing needs of adolescent boys.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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