immaturity

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Recent Examples of immaturity The diagnosis provided a framework that explained years of behavior that family members had struggled to understand and had simply attributed to immaturity. Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026 However this levity continues to jar with Niki’s immaturity, in that scene and beyond; even so, her juvenile lack of perspective is dramatically compelling. Elena Lazic, Variety, 11 July 2026 But errors induced by pressure and by the immaturity of new combinations prevented the All Blacks ever taking full control. ABC News, 4 July 2026 But this commenter reframes a mother’s need for rest, connection and autonomy as immaturity. Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026 Allen compared the immaturity to how his youngest daughter, 17-year-old Elizabeth, used to act whenever there was a romantic scene in a movie. Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026 It’s been a long 3½ years for Gio Reyna, whose promising career has been derailed by a string of injuries, bouts of immaturity and an aborted loan deal to England’s Nottingham Forest. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2026 His impulsivity, his immaturity, his lack of curiosity about anything going on around him. David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 June 2026 As the team gets older and gains experience, the immaturity label won’t be a valid excuse. Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immaturity
Noun
  • The event benefits Boys to Men Mentoring, which has been helping teenage boys navigate adolescence through mentoring for nearly 30 years.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026
  • By late adolescence, my relatives’ narrative was on how much agency enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue had in shaping their future.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026
Noun
  • Of course, as Fiedler demonstrates with such aplomb, juvenility need not yield aesthetic failure.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Back in those early days there was talk of Newcastle winning the Premier League in the next five to 10 years, principally from the mouth of Amanda Staveley, a 10 per cent minority partner of PIF who sold her stake and left Tyneside in July 2024.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026
  • That would give more games to minority co-hosts Argentina, Paraguay and inaugural 1930 World Cup host Uruguay, who currently are set to get just one game each of the 104.
    Graham Dunbar, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • That was during a corporate mainframe computing boom, while AI was still in its infancy.
    Humayun Chaudhry, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Small added that the infancy of AI could lead new infrastructure that might share the fruits of the entertainment industry more equitably than in the past.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Aug. 2026

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“Immaturity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immaturity. Accessed 6 Aug. 2026.

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