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Recent Examples of preadolescence
Like his early childhood in Omaha, Nebraska; his troubled preadolescence in Lansing, Michigan; and his immersion in street-corner politics in 1950s Harlem, Malcolm’s coming-of-age in Boston shaped his radicalism as profoundly as the Nation of Islam and his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca did.
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Kerri Greenidge, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2020
Instead, the rats concerned acted normally until given their preadolescence doses of THC.
—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
Yet there’s no better example of the genius of Big Mouth—a comedy that nails the sophomoric physical humor of preadolescence but whose hilarious portrait of puberty is really a mirror held up to adult sexuality—more than what follows.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 Oct. 2019
Kerri Greenidge, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2020
Instead, the rats concerned acted normally until given their preadolescence doses of THC.
—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
Yet there’s no better example of the genius of Big Mouth—a comedy that nails the sophomoric physical humor of preadolescence but whose hilarious portrait of puberty is really a mirror held up to adult sexuality—more than what follows.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for preadolescence
Noun
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But as childhood faded into adolescence, the piano became less a place of play and more a refuge.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Maybe the trailing parent is simply the next logical step in an era when adolescence stretches longer.—
Russell Shaw,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Alexander-Arnold hasn’t played for Madrid since suffering an injury in their opening Champions League game against Marseille on September 16, and The Athletic reported on Monday that he is not expected to start against his boyhood club despite Dani Carvajal’s injury.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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His boyhood home is available to visit in Lincoln City.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One skipped school day exposes the fractures of a family grieving in silence and the contradictions of love that shape her girlhood.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Your music has been the soundtrack to generations of Black girlhood and womanhood.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Preadolescence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/preadolescence. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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