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Nothing can stop André's skid into second childhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2020

This is why it was called a second childhood.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2016

As with that other great 21st-century franchise The Lord of the Rings, the filming took a long time and served as a kind of second childhood for its cast and crew.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2015

Warhol in the ’60s, looking back to a decade earlier—when he started to become well-known, to make and be able to spend money—may have begun, in effect, to live his second childhood.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2012

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck