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pubescence

noun as in adolescence

noun as in hairiness

noun as in minority

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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.

“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.

If anything I must have looked less mature after applying the new shaver to my upper lip, shearing away the shadowy fuzz, and with it, all evidence of pubescence.

From Salon

Boas’s revolutionary work was a study, undertaken for a congressional committee and published in 1911, on the bodily form—head size, height, hair color, age at pubescence—of the children of recent European immigrants.

Aside from Meier, the most visible figures that winter are dozens of teenagers from the camp, who move through town in a vaguely threatening cloud of pubescence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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