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pubescent

adjective as in adolescent

adjective as in teenage

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The video, Stockton argued, fails to include a sex education component and instead offers "misleading" context in an effort to teach pubescent children that a fetus is a human life.

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A pubescent Usher temporarily lost his voice after recording the first album, pushing him to focus on honing his dance skills and stage presence.

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My pubescent nerves did a pirouette in my stomach as we hung up, retreating to the haven of instant messages.

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To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.

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All these form an enormous playground where monumental things happen at inopportune times, each song a zoetrope world built for consoling and commiserating with the pains of being pubescent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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