pubescent
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My pubescent nerves did a pirouette in my stomach as we hung up, retreating to the haven of instant messages.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2024
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
As the furor over "Turning Red" reveals, periods – especially the first ones that a pubescent child experiences – are not widely embraced as acceptable on our screens.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2022
When the pubescent protagonists of the former issue idiotic declarations about the psychologies of the girls they obsess over, the movie makes it abundantly clear they have no idea what they’re talking about.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2021
“What sort of flying motorcars do you have?” asked a pubescent boy named Horace, who wore a dark suit that made him look like an apprentice undertaker.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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