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
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
His high-pitched voice would rise until it gave a pubescent crack, then he would return to normal as if all the air was out of the balloon.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2021
This season takes all that pubescent awkwardness and rage and sends it to summer camp.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2020
“My pubescent nemesis. What a promising day this appears to be. I am apparently to be run over by a streetcar and robbed simultaneously, thereby setting a Paradise record. Get away, you depraved urchin.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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