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Meanings of teenhood in English

Period of human life between childhood and adulthood.

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        Examples for "adolescence"
        Examples for "adolescence"
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        Most children are vaccinated by the time they reach adolescence, Baker said.
        Reuters
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        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
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        Therefore, women are under enormous societal pressure to remain in perpetual adolescence.
        Feminist dot com
        Usage of teenhood in English
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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
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        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
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        Teenhood through the time