Recent Examples on the WebLike 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.—Kerri Greenidge, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2020 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 Instead, the rats concerned acted normally until given their preadolescence doses of THC.—The Economist, 19 Oct. 2019
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