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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adolescent phase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a developmental stage in a person's life, particularly during the teenage years.
Example: "During the adolescent phase, individuals often experience significant emotional and physical changes."
Alternatives: "teenage stage" or "youthful period".
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You never seemed to have gone through an awkward, adolescent phase.
Their scorn and ennui – as well as their hopes and passions – might yet prove to be an adolescent phase.
This suited me very well, because in my rebellious adolescent phase I wanted to have nothing to do with Argentina, the Spanish language, or anything from the diaspora.
Yet there is no doubt, as Peter Nagy, the owner of Nature Morte, put it, that the Indian art scene is in its "pimply, adolescent phase".
So while enthusiasm for "the Internet of Things" is a hot catchphrase these days in the tech industry, it's still decidedly in its awkward adolescent phase.
It meant a year of grueling Saturday rehearsals, learning work after work, then piecing them together in a full program, all the while contending with a voice caught in that croaking adolescent phase.
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Stress in pre-pubertal or adolescent phases in development may influence structural integrity of specific brain regions and emotion regulation behaviors depending on genetic vulnerability, consistent with a G×E×T interaction in mood dysregulation.
Maximal cannabis use during the adolescent phases (ie, most frequent level reported across any wave) was categorised as none/occasional and daily/weekly.
There will be many adults like me, who after loving the book as children went through a long post-adolescent phase of hysterically repudiating it after the Christian-humanist parable was explained.
However, C57/BL6 mice are genetically engineered to rapidly develop insulin resistance when they are metabolically challenged (Coleman and Hummel, 1973; Coleman, 1978) and the study by Karatsoreos et al. (Karatsoreos et al., 2010) used mature mice that were well past their adolescent growth phase when the GC-induced inhibition of the GH IGF-1 axis would have less influence on body mass GH IGF-1
To quote Dionne in Clueless, I was starting a "post-adolescent idealistic phase".
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