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pubescent
adjective
At of just after the age of puberty.
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In America, male body shapes will wax and wane – over a period of half a decade, they might go from the "jock" to something skinny and then creep back to the current vogue, the "swimmer's" body – that is, not such a meathead that you could beat anybody up, but not so lanky that you look pubescent.
The opening of the film depicts Kyle killing a pubescent boy and his mother as they attempt to throw a grenade at American marines.
"They even let pubescent girls swim in the sea," moans the culture minister.
In an impoverished rural society, pubescent girls are bought and sold like cattle, and often treated little better.
It was hip hop for the pubescent masses.They were masters of publicity.
The "Good Relationship Guide" is a potential minefield: a new series that aims to steer pubescent listeners through the torment of their first approaches to the opposite sex.
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The truly momentous phenomenon in the film industry is not a pre-pubescent wizard but a humble circular piece of plastic: the digital versatile disc (DVD .Next year, for the first time, sales of movies in DVD format are forecast to outsell those on video cassette in America (see chart), reaching a total of $9.5 billion, according to Morgan Stanley, an investment bank.
Another image showed a pre-pubescent girl lying naked on Tia's bed, and there were "professional" pornographic images of young girls performing sex acts, the court heard.
We all mature for a reason, and women shouldn't have to return to their pre-pubescent youth to fill any adolescent fantasies.
He painted them holding court at the Ad Lib club; he recreated the food fight at the launch of their Beggars Banquet album; he portrayed them in Gestapo uniforms surrounded by pre-pubescent girls; and he anticipated Keith Richards's cameo in the film Pirates of the Caribbean – At World's End by 35 years when he depicted the guitarist and Mick Jagger as buccaneers dancing on a coffin.
At their core is a likeable hero – the pre-pubescent Greg Heffley – whose epistolary accounts make him teen literature's most beguiling diarist since Adrian Mole.
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