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adolescents

noun as in person in puberty, preadulthood

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The number of overweight children - which includes those who are obese - has also increased to the extent that now 1 in five school-age children and adolescents are overweight.

From BBC

“Most posts were created by white, female adolescents and young adults.”

From Salon

In the meantime, for adults concerned about the adolescents in their own lives, volunteers offered some sage advice.

It concluded that reducing screen media "positively affected psychological symptoms of children and adolescents" and enhanced "prosocial behaviour", although added that further research was needed.

From BBC

Though they were apprenticed by their father to perform as adolescents, they were their own men, with a sophisticated grasp of various musical genres as teenagers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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