pubescence
Example Sentences
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Still, the film does end strongly on the idea that one must — must! — ditch their stunted pubescence or risk a breakdown.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024
“I assumed it was something they put out into the world. I assumed they were profiting from it,” Rogen says of the video that leaked in his pubescence.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022
It is good to see that a few young men can grope through the biochemical fog of pubescence to find a way out of this violent cycle.
From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014
He did not yet know how, but he believed, as he approached pubescence, that his head would be his.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2011
Erect, 1–2½° high, densely beset with soft spreading somewhat glandular white hairs; leaves broader, more obtuse and with evident veins, very short-petioled or sessile; pubescence of the capsule soft and spreading.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
