noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a teenage/adolescent boy
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A group of teenage boys stood talking in a group outside.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An estimated 62 million Americans smoke, including 4.1 million adolescents aged 12-17.
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John changed from a friendly and cheerful young boy into a confused adolescent .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the individual adolescent seeks to grow more independent of the family, peer groups and friends become important points of reference.
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At age 20 in 1910, Egon Schiele still had the hypersensitivity of an adolescent , which was good news for art.
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Ben, an awkward adolescent , is closer to being a successfully evolved man than the grown ones he encounters.
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Even more foolishly, the besotted adolescent attempted to extend the relationship, and chased Byron to Geneva.
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Lately he had been as moody as an adolescent and about as helpful.
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Oddly, Courtney became a difficult young adolescent .
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The working class adolescent of the 60s had quite a job deciding what to do with his hair.