as in youth
the transitional period between childhood and adulthood
adolescence can be a turbulent time for teenagers and parents alike
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Recent Examples of adolescence
Studies show that between 5% and 69% of children go into spontaneous remission by adolescence or adulthood.
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Daniel More, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2025
The room is a temple of adolescence, with pictures of his favorite basketball players, vintage arcade machines like Pac-Man and a gaming racing wheel.
—Damien Scott, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
Bad decisions — the kind that can be, if not reversed, at least remedied — are an essential part of adolescence: lapses that teach us about our desires, our impulses, our weaknesses, our essential character, and leave us with no greater damage than a throbbing hangover or a small, smudgy tattoo.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Alcohol use, especially in adolescence and early adulthood, also clearly increases breast cancer risk.
—Nina Agrawal, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Daniel More, Verywell Health, 30 Jan. 2025
The room is a temple of adolescence, with pictures of his favorite basketball players, vintage arcade machines like Pac-Man and a gaming racing wheel.
—Damien Scott, Billboard, 27 Jan. 2025
Bad decisions — the kind that can be, if not reversed, at least remedied — are an essential part of adolescence: lapses that teach us about our desires, our impulses, our weaknesses, our essential character, and leave us with no greater damage than a throbbing hangover or a small, smudgy tattoo.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
Alcohol use, especially in adolescence and early adulthood, also clearly increases breast cancer risk.
—Nina Agrawal, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adolescence
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Violence against trans youth has skyrocketed in states that pass discriminatory policies affecting trans people.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
8 Feb. 2025
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Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured Drag Shows specifically targeting our youth — THIS WILL STOP.—
Brady Knox,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
8 Feb. 2025
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The battery storage plant was built in 2019 when the technology was in its infancy, constructed in a huge concrete warehouse that housed a former 1950s-era PG&E oil and gas-burning power plant.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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With that ancient ticket stub, McCaskey also had a portal back to the infancy of pro football and the league her father, George Halas, imagined, founded, built and, in those earliest years, exerted great effort to grow.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2025
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Under the deal, which has formally closed, Common Sense Networks will hold a significant minority stake in Cricket, a person familiar with the transaction told Deadline.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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She has also been involved in the company's educational and professional programs, having been a coach for an 8-week Accelerate program to help prepare minority undergraduate students for business, according to People.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
9 Feb. 2025
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“Adolescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adolescence. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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