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growing pains

NOUN
adolescent pain
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Still, the growing pains show how investment banks are seeing mixed results as they look to cut costs and adapt how they hire young professionals out of college.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

All the growing pains Neckien went through appear to have gone away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

Anything higher isn’t a pilot with growing pains.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

But investigations found he had been accidentally poisoned with an overdose of vitamin D that had been prescribed for growing pains.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Arthur said: "After all, Galahad is only a child! He has growing pains, perhaps. I don’t think we ought to judge him unkindly for little faults of social intercourse."

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White



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