The phrase 'adolescent stage' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a time period in a person's life when they are transitioning from a child to an adult, typically the teenage years. For example, "Some of the most important lessons I have ever learned were during the adolescent stage of my life."
The spring rout on the Nasdaq caught Southeast Asia's dot-com industry in an awkward adolescent stage, somewhere between finding venture capital and a public offering.
"837 VENICE BOULEVARD" In her new semiautobiographical trio, Faye Driscoll, a rising choreographer who likes to worry embarrassment and awkwardness as if they were loose teeth, finds fresh ways to physicalize the absurdities of identity construction, particularly the adolescent stage.
Cedar Rapids, which saw 10 square miles, or about 14 percent of its area, submerged after the 2008 flood, is in the adolescent stage of a comeback effort that cities along the East Coast, almost a year after Hurricane Sandy, are only starting to plan.
The theory of difference equations, the methods used in their solutions, and their wideapplications have advanced beyond their adolescent stage to occupy a central position inapplicable analysis.
While we currently look at home 3D printing as the domain of the hopelessly nerdy, fact is that the 3D printer is past its infancy and is now in the gangly, awkward adolescent stage that all paradigm-shifting technologies face.
I feel lucky that our team has been able to move past this awkward adolescent stage of blogging and into a more mature, measured approach (although you guys will continue to say that we're being paid by Apple or Google or Microsoft (we aren't (in cash (but we are paid in ponies (and airplanes)))), and although one of our interns, not long ago, was a yutz).
Most smokers start the smoking habits from childhood and adolescent stages.
The latter provides some evidence that these drugs are not neurotoxic when given during adolescent stages of brain development at least on the behavioral indices used here.
With respect to age, children who are most vulnerable to CSA are in the school-aged and adolescent stages of development, though about a quarter of CSA survivors report they were first abused before the age of 6 [ 3].
Preliminary data reveal that integrative neuromuscular training protocols implemented in pre-adolescent and early adolescent stages may artificially induce the neuromuscular spurt [ 105, 106] and have the potential to reduce the risk of sports-related injury in young athlete [ 105- 107].
In each intervention, strategies were tailored to adolescents' stage of change (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance).
