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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's a book about a young woman's coming of age in Berkeley during the 1960s.
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The popularity of these cars signals the coming of age of the Korean auto industry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Growth in the size of the legal profession occurred during the time when consumer movements were coming of age .
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In short, nowhere illustrates better than Mississippi the coming of age of the Republican Party in the South.
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Leonard, too, was coming of age - precociously so.
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Now Taylor is openly inviting him to become so in what is a sign of both player and manager coming of age .
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Some will eventually feel the loneliness as passage, as the rending of the familiar that is part of coming of age .
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Sweetly lyrical, it tells of a shy boy's coming of age through sport in Amsterdam on the eve of war.
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The gold watch presented at coming of age marks the assumption of an adult role.
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The United States was coming of age and meeting its destiny.