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 ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.
    Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • For most of the book, Jeon-Gi’s first-person voice remains suspended in the uneasy space of his childhood consciousness, re-enacting the uncertainty and confusion of adolescence.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Of course, as Fiedler demonstrates with such aplomb, juvenility need not yield aesthetic failure.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • Hegseth has aggressively moved to reshape the military's senior ranks, removing or sidelining more than two dozen senior officers, without explanation, including a number of women and minorities.
    Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • There is also persistent friction between Arab and Kurdish communities in the northeast of the country, and the government has had to respond to pockets of violence against the religious Alawite minority along Syria’s coast.
    Paula Hancocks, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Space Force, a branch still in its infancy, brought in 730 new recruits this year.
    Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • While the business of cosmetically modified, futuristic-looking pets remains in its infancy, animal rights groups worry that eventually the creatures will be created, sold and later discarded in crowded municipal shelters.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Immaturity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immaturity. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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