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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
The network will give the coming-of-age sports drama a proper sendoff with a renewal for an eighth - and final season - in 2026.
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Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
The streamer announced the final season of the coming-of-age sci-fi hit will air in three parts late this year.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2025
The first is Karate Kid: Legends, the sixth film in the coming-of-age martial arts drama franchise that packs the combined star power of Joshua Jackson, Jackie Chan, and Ralph Macchio.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 25 May 2025
And with all that coming-of-age angst came plenty of tearjerker moments, from family struggles and sudden tragedies to the bitter lows of young love.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 24 May 2025
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Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
The streamer announced the final season of the coming-of-age sci-fi hit will air in three parts late this year.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 31 May 2025
The first is Karate Kid: Legends, the sixth film in the coming-of-age martial arts drama franchise that packs the combined star power of Joshua Jackson, Jackie Chan, and Ralph Macchio.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 25 May 2025
And with all that coming-of-age angst came plenty of tearjerker moments, from family struggles and sudden tragedies to the bitter lows of young love.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 24 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coming-of-age
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At the Haiti Funders Conference on Haiti in Boston on Wednesday evening, several attendees expressed shock at the development.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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The area is often described as one of the country’s largest urban infill projects, and economic development leaders see it as a means of doubling the size of Sacramento’s downtown.—
Annika Merrilees,
Sacbee.com,
5 June 2025
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But their maturation only tells half of the story of how UBS, in particular, has become such a hotbed for Caribbean headliners.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
22 May 2025
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The level of transcendent thinking also does not correlate with brain maturation at the study’s start.—
Aaron Shattuck,
Scientific American,
20 May 2025
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Gallegos recommends investors consider investment grade credits in the BBB class, between one and five years in terms of maturity (the average maturity is approximately three years), and where yields are near 5%.—
Eric Rosenbaum,
CNBC,
2 June 2025
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He’s gained maturity and perspective by going through hell and back a couple times on the way to getting clean and sober; and he’s developed even more of both via fatherhood and, more recently, grandfatherhood.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
1 June 2025
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These two groups of turfgrass have significantly different periods of active growth.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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But Williams will have to put in the time to make gradual, significant growth.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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Here, temperature swings between day and night—diurnal variation—can be wide, favoring the evolution of acidity in grapes during cool nights.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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What remain enduringly relevant are the book’s insights into the nature of design innovation, which Jencks described as analogous to biological evolution, a constant flow of emergent, divergent, and convergent streams.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
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“Coming-of-age.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coming-of-age. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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