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adolescent

adjective as in preadult or immature

noun as in person in puberty, preadulthood

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge showed that the brain stays in the adolescent phase until our early thirties when we "peak".

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None of this is out of the ordinary for television, which has a long history of casting 20 and sometimes 30-somethings to portray adolescents.

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Dusty and Ruby were adolescent sweethearts, but the audience doesn’t need to know the whole backstory to guess why they broke up.

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Do they have language arts classes teaching adolescent gods to write essays in Adinkra symbols?

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But seven years after she left home, she takes a philosophical view of her adolescent turmoil.

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