adolescent
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“They make me feel less alone,” says Grace, and she and Susanna can both quote from Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” a cherished touchstone of every sensitive adolescent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The researchers combined data from 12 studies involving 235 women and adolescent girls.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
Lucio Campos decided to learn it when his adolescent daughter asked to go to South Korea for her 15th birthday.
From Barron's • May 5, 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
Fanny’s voice was a trumpet; she might have been a Y.W.F.A. lecturer giving an evening talk to adolescent Beta-Minuscs.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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