growing pains
Example Sentences
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Steve, what was important for you to show about this relationship between a father and an adult daughter with both of them still going through growing pains?
From Los Angeles Times
Overcoming what felt like constant production problems and growing pains, the company sold enough of the cars in the first quarter of 2013 to eke out a slim profit.
All the research conducted thus far has been carried out in good faith, he said, adding that these are relatively normal growing pains for a new scientific field.
From Barron's
Ms. Hillgrove, now 79 years old, came of age at a time when America itself was having growing pains.
He also said the delays had been the result of "severe growing pains".
From BBC
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