adolescence
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If Euphoria once felt like an exaggerated but emotionally resonant portrait of Gen Z adolescence, its latest season has pushed that chaos to near-surreal extremes.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
A 21 year-old pre-nursing student at USC, Reet Buttar spent most of her adolescence actively hiding her Indian and Punjabi identity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
The two know each other from grade school years earlier but hadn’t been friends, and now they’re gawky teenagers practiced in the supreme virtue of adolescence, which is to be cool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Slowly, love stretches into the past, shining light on a dark adolescence.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence, but I was the opposite.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing adolescence
Power Suffix: -escence
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