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pubescence





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Still, the film does end strongly on the idea that one must — must! — ditch their stunted pubescence or risk a breakdown.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

“I assumed it was something they put out into the world. I assumed they were profiting from it,” Rogen says of the video that leaked in his pubescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

The first season of the HBO series is an account of tech pubescence, that time of life when programmers, gawky but ambitious, figure out how to wield their power or prowess.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2016

It is good to see that a few young men can grope through the biochemical fog of pubescence to find a way out of this violent cycle.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014

Body moderately elongated and covered with a long dark pubescence; spiracular disk squarely truncated, surrounded by five subequal stout lobes; mentum with five subequal teeth, the lateral one of either side not conspicuously reduced.Rhamphidaria.

From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Alexander, Charles P.




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