Thesaurus results for ADOLESCENCE

adolescence

noun

ˌa-də-ˈle-sᵊn(t)s

Definition of adolescence

as in youth

the transitional period between childhood and adulthood adolescence can be a turbulent time for teenagers and parents alike

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Recent Examples of adolescence The films form a trio of emotional studies of adolescence shaped by grief. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026 Schacter encourages parents to take friendship concerns seriously rather than minimizing problems that may feel especially important during adolescence. — Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Parents should take teen friendship concerns seriously rather than minimizing problems that can feel especially important during adolescence. — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026 Nearly all of it goes to people already in crisis, past the point where the underlying biology could have been redirected, whether in infancy or in adolescence or midlife. — Holly Baines, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for adolescence

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The movement was formed in May 2026 to protest the government’s cancellation of medical school entrance exams and after India’s Chief Justice Surya Kant likened unemployed youth to cockroaches.

— Amrita Basu, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2026
Mohammed Annour spent much of his youth living in a flimsy shelter in a dusty, overcrowded refugee camp in east Africa, where the days were long, the food was poor and the future nonexistent.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

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Special Olympics basketball in Illinois was in its infancy stage, and this was the team’s first trip out of town.

— Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
The company said almost all of that figure would come from its artificial intelligence business, which was — and is — in its relative infancy.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026

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Over the past two months, amid efforts to find what could be more than $20 billion to recapitalize insurance funds, Walter has sold his controlling interest in the Lakers and a minority share of Chelsea, the English Premier League club.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Additionally, ethnic and Indigenous minorities, such as the Roma people in Europe and the Uyghur people in China, are targets of the practice, as are people with disabilities and transgender and intersex persons.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026

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