pubescent

Example Sentences

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But she hasn’t conceived the teen as anything more than a blunt symbol of pubescent awkwardness.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

All these form an enormous playground where monumental things happen at inopportune times, each song a zoetrope world built for consoling and commiserating with the pains of being pubescent.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

When the pubescent protagonists of the former issue idiotic declarations about the psychologies of the girls they obsess over, the movie makes it abundantly clear they have no idea what they’re talking about.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2021

His high-pitched voice would rise until it gave a pubescent crack, then he would return to normal as if all the air was out of the balloon.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2021

He appeared barely pubescent but was walking with the dignity of a man double his age.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore