adolescent
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The researchers combined data from 12 studies involving 235 women and adolescent girls.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
In this blended, blighted family, fear has a different hold on Niall, played as an adolescent by Mitchell Robertson.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Compared to pregnancies in adulthood, adolescent pregnancies have been associated with higher rates of low birth weight, preterm birth, and early neonatal mortality among infants.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
Henry David Thoreau’s timing was one of his gifts: Living and writing during his nation’s adolescence, he was something of an adolescent himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The forest we walked through now was really just a strapping adolescent.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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