immaturity

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Recent Examples of immaturity His workload as captain in all three formats was secondary to his immaturity. Paul Newman, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immaturity
Noun
  • Set at a New England prep school during World War II, A Separate Peace paints a messy, complex depiction of adolescence and the loss of innocence.
    Caroline Rogers, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
  • But the opportunity now is to make that momentum last beyond adolescence, when school teams disappear and women lose the structures that made sports a regular part of their lives.
    Lindsay Davenport, Chicago Tribune, 18 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
  • Selling minority stakes in sports teams is nothing new, but the practice has become more common.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Erin Harty is among the minority of EV owners who live in multifamily housing.
    Razak Diallo, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • According to the National Cancer Institute, cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease after infancy among children in the United States.
    Jason Collins, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2026
  • From infancy onward interactions between intestinal microbes and immune cells help the body distinguish harmless microorganisms from disease-causing pathogens and regulate inflammatory responses.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026

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“Immaturity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immaturity. Accessed 27 Aug. 2026.

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