preadolescence

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Impelled in large part by TikTok to seek beauty products meant for adults, younger customers — teenagers and even preadolescents — are proving to be a mixed blessing for retailers like Sephora and Ulta.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2024

It would also receive $10 million for more research on developmental delays in young children, from infants to preadolescents.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 29, 2021

The donors had good intentions, but it was hard to believe that anyone could celebrate stuffing a bunch of parentless preadolescents into repainted trailers.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

So what purpose does a story like Slender Man serve for adolescents and preadolescents, exactly?

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2014

What would a society of eunuchs achieve?—But of course they are not eunuchs, in somer, but rather more comparable to preadolescents: not castrate, but latent.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin