awkward stage
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The Orange County Museum of Art presents its 2025 California Biennial: “Desperate, Scared, But Social,” featuring 12 artists exploring the rich, precocious and often awkward stage of late adolescence through multimedia exhibitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2025
Possible spoilers: Upsets are as much a part of the night as awkward stage pairings and speeches that are cut off.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
He also purposely included ones capturing him in an awkward stage.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
Complaining that she could not hear, she did not sing for much of the track and her dancers led her though an awkward stage routine.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2017
We lingered in that awkward stage of a conversation where there was no logical next topic but the silence hadn’t yet grown uncomfortable.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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