awkward stage
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The Orange County Museum of Art presents its 2025 California Biennial: “Desperate, Scared, But Social,” featuring 12 artists exploring the rich, precocious and often awkward stage of late adolescence through multimedia exhibitions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025
Spoiler alert: Upsets are as much a part of the night as awkward stage pairings and cutoff speeches.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
He also purposely included ones capturing him in an awkward stage.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2021
If you’re willing to do the work, your friendship will make it past this awkward stage and into its next chapter.
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2021
We lingered in that awkward stage of a conversation where there was no logical next topic but the silence hadn’t yet grown uncomfortable.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
