preadolescence

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"It seems like wherever you had your developmental life preadolescence and adolescence tends to be where your thermostat is tuned. I think there's very complex genetics that play into that and where you feel good."

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023

In the past year, you and Matt Reeves have become the poets of anguished preadolescence.

From Time • Jun. 6, 2011

Even battling evil warlocks, when tween girls leave the page for the screen, they largely hew to an awkward caricature of preadolescence.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2011

Whereas the humiliations of preadolescence are fodder for comedy in male characters — the squeaking voice, the pimples, the delayed growth spurt — in girls it’s an age often avoided.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2011

The same principles should carry over into the intermediate, or preadolescence, age.

From How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods by Betts, George Herbert