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Meanings of adolescence in English

Period of human life between childhood and adulthood.

Synonyms
Examples for "teenhood"
Examples for "teenhood"
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It was a hectic calendar of study, union activity and the social highs and lows of late teenhood.
The Irish Times
2
Occasionally, one of "Sleepover's" characters emerge from their hormonal fog to speechify on the predicament that is teenhood in a way that's pure Hughes.
Reuters
Usage of adolescence in English
1
Most children are vaccinated by the time they reach adolescence, Baker said.
Reuters
2
Without question, adolescence is tough and young people face so many challenges.
Radio NZ
3
Whatever happened in their adolescence, what Pamela says in the house, goes.
The Guardian
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So it didn't really come up in my childhood, or indeed adolescence.
The Guardian
5
Therefore, women are under enormous societal pressure to remain in perpetual adolescence.
Feminist dot com
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Marriage on Mercury was an extended adolescence, one long and dangerous discomfort.
Edge of Infinity
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Background: No accepted intervention exists for borderline personality disorder presenting in adolescence.
Pubmed
8
Then follow some centuries of childhood, and a thousand years of adolescence.
Last and First Men
9
I think you become a writer in late adolescence and early adulthood.
The new yorker
10
Tracy just hoped she would get through adolescence trouble free-orclose enough.
Fortunate harbor
11
In adolescence our sense of who we are comes under intense pressure.
The Guardian
12
They appear in childhood and adolescence and involute from middle age onwards.
Pubmed
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Response variability during adolescence is an important, understudied, and developmentally appropriate behavior.
Pubmed
14
Proper nutrition throughout childhood and adolescence is crucial for normal bone development.
Pubmed
15
In the years of her adolescence, rain was abundant with her people.
Youth and the Bright Medusa
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It was the soundtrack to my gestation; internal narrator through my adolescence.
The Irish Times
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Adolescence through the time
Adolescence across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common