adolescence
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Her circle of friends included Green, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, David Arquette, Stephen Dorff and Heather McComb, all of whom sat for interviews in “Kid 90” to reflect on their adolescences.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2021
Then there is the secondary question: Are adulation and money enough compensation for playing out your adolescences and family dramas on TMZ?
From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2017
Tennis is a game rife with early burnout, the byproduct of childhoods and adolescences devoted exclusively to one thing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2016
Twelve brawling, boastful boys; twelve fragile and rapacious egos; twelve adolescences — all presented to the new queen as routine aspects of her job.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2015
What have you done with your three adolescences?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing adolescence
Power Suffix: -escence
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