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

Possible spoilers: Upsets are as much a part of the night as awkward stage pairings and speeches that are cut off.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

He also purposely included ones capturing him in an awkward stage.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2021

Complaining that she could not hear, she did not sing for much of the track and her dancers led her though an awkward stage routine.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2017

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