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the time when a person becomes an adult
The film is about a young man's coming-of-age.
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Recent Examples of coming-of-age
Cutting between the two timelines, Washington Black bears witness simultaneously to the very first steps in Wash’s adolescent coming-of-age, and the finishing stages of it.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2025
While phantoms of female anxiety, emotion, and pain proliferate across each timeline, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka articulate their own budding coming-of-age achingly, exquisitely.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 21 July 2025
From detailing the coming-of-age process to highlighting harsh realities, the group tells their own story.
—Olivia Munson, USA Today, 21 July 2025
But for Rosas, and anyone who’s followed his career to date, the character is a familiar one, developed across 12 years and three short films along a coming-of-age arc roughly akin to François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 July 2025
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2025
While phantoms of female anxiety, emotion, and pain proliferate across each timeline, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka articulate their own budding coming-of-age achingly, exquisitely.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 21 July 2025
From detailing the coming-of-age process to highlighting harsh realities, the group tells their own story.
—Olivia Munson, USA Today, 21 July 2025
But for Rosas, and anyone who’s followed his career to date, the character is a familiar one, developed across 12 years and three short films along a coming-of-age arc roughly akin to François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coming-of-age
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In true Georgia fashion, this development is insane.—
Tom Smyth,
Vulture,
23 July 2025
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Love has all the skills to become elite, but faces a critical year in his development.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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The primary challenge is the climate's impact on maturation.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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Just as her last three albums generally marked moments of emotional and mental maturation for Zillennials and early Gen Z, so too does Virgin in its gender-expansive exploration of mid-20s reinvention and self-discovery.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
8 July 2025
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In parallel, quantum computing continues its steady march toward practical maturity.—
Dave Krauthamer,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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Generally speaking, shrubs max out around 13 ft. while small trees are classified as larger than 13 ft. at maturity.—
Markis Hill,
Kansas City Star,
18 July 2025
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Once contained to local disputes resolved between communities, the violence has exploded into mass killings fueled by population growth, the climate crisis, and the collapse of traditional peacemaking.—
Emmanuel Akinwotu,
NPR,
26 July 2025
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Though the specifics of the complaints varied, most painted the company as focused on growth rather than student success.—
Chris Quintana,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Her interests extend to topics such as human evolution, psychology, and quirky animal stories.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
18 July 2025
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Now, with the evolution of secure software development solutions in the market, the tradeoff is no longer relevant, and embedding security into software development should no longer be an afterthought.—
Madhuri Sesha Sarma,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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