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awkward age



NOUN
growing pains




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She later said, “Fourteen’s an awkward age, anyway—everything so dramatic, down to what color shoes you’re wearing.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018

He was 42 in August of 1977, and that is a very awkward age for a rock star.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2017

The truth is I am at an awkward age, caught between hopeless romantic, hedonistic bachelor and desperate spinster.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2014

David and his friends are well-drawn portraits of innocents at an excruciatingly awkward age.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014

For a year now they had been denying how I was changing, putting it down to the awkward age.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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