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How to pronounce adolescence in English?

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Type Words
Type of immatureness, immaturity
Derivation adolesce, adolescent
Type Words
Type of time of life
Derivation adolesce, adolescent

Examples of adolescence

adolescence
This is a warts-and-all account, including a difficult and dramatic adolescence.
From the books.scoop.co.nz
This time frame roughly matches the toddler years to late adolescence in humans.
From the sciencedaily.com
Lonely and depressed, he drank a lot, just as he'd been doing since adolescence.
From the washingtonpost.com
Type 1 is an autoimmune condition that often starts in childhood or adolescence.
From the sciencedaily.com
The performers sing and dance well, reflecting vibrant but insecure adolescence.
From the dispatch.com
Not since adolescence had I spent so much time worrying about how I come across.
From the nytimes.com
They are working-class kids, ninth-graders navigating the shoals of adolescence.
From the nytimes.com
People with incomplete childhoods and people who often haven't left adolescence.
From the charlotteobserver.com
If it helps, the bad dye job is an essential part of the process of adolescence.
From the halesowennews.co.uk
More examples
  • The time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood
  • (adolescent) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
  • (adolescent) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent; "adolescent problems"
  • (adolescent) being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the teen years"
  • (adolescent) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes"
  • Adolescence Macmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd. (1981), page 14, 456. Retrieved 2010-7-15. ...
  • Adolescence is a 1966 French short documentary film directed by Marin Karmitz. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
  • (The Adolescent (film)) The Adolescent (L'Adolescente) is a French drama film directed by Jeanne Moreau in 1978, released January 1979. It was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.
  • (The Adolescents) The Adolescents are an American punk band formed in 1980 in Fullerton, California. It is a punk supergroup, made up of early members of Agent Orange and Social Distortion. ...