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Up to and including Ardern’s remarks about the role of social media delivered in parliament on Tuesday – game-changing remarks which surely chilled the air, even at Facebook’s adolescently named address, 1 Hacker Way.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2019

The group had really long hair and looked really adolescently cool, and had a sort of Cro-Magnonesque nobility about them.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2014

He soliquizes long and adolescently on art suppressed; she chews gum.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had been brought up together, sharing each others tutors, writing themes for the same instructor, both meanwhile adolescently enamored of the fair Faustine.

From Imperial Purple by Saltus, Edgar

Hitherto Mr. Direck had been inclined to think this silent observant youth, with his hands in his pockets and his shoulders a little humped, as probably shy and adolescently ineffective.

From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)