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UK
/ˌædəlˈɛsəns/
]
[ US /ˌædəˈɫɛsəns, ˌædoʊˈɫɛsəns/ ]
[ US /ˌædəˈɫɛsəns, ˌædoʊˈɫɛsəns/ ]
NOUN
- in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
- the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
How To Use adolescence In A Sentence
- During adolescence , boys and girls will take on secondary sexual characteristics.
- Adolescence causes the four girls to understand their apartness and question their identities.
- And it mythologizes it in such a way, such a romantic way - it basically says, ‘Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.’
- Hamsters reared in the laboratory can be made to have female-biased litters by keeping them hungry during adolescence or pregnancy.
- Teenage boys and women past adolescence also develop the condition, but this is less common.
- From infancy through early adolescence, Semai children are largely unconstrained and free of external domination.
- ‘Bliss is one of the few places where teenagers can get support and clear, unprejudiced information that can help them weave their way through the maze of adolescence,’ she says.
- As a result, adolescence has became a painful experience and teenagers are self-medicating with drugs and drink to cope with the stress.
- It was a seminal moment in my adolescence. Times, Sunday Times
- Initiatives such as parental leave for men and parenting classes that emphasize the role of fathers could help to maximize children's development from early childhood to preadolescence," says Serbin.