pubescent
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But she hasn’t conceived the teen as anything more than a blunt symbol of pubescent awkwardness.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
This pubescent Vance has been adorned with a rainbow propeller hat and a swirly lollipop, morphed into a patriotic Minion from Despicable Me, and rendered as lisping Hans Landa, the Nazi villain from Inglourious Basterds.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2025
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.
From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023
This season takes all that pubescent awkwardness and rage and sends it to summer camp.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2020
He appeared barely pubescent but was walking with the dignity of a man double his age.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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