Example Sentences

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“Puberty adds strength that prepubescence does not. And since the derivation of it was ‘100 men versus a gorilla’ ...

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

All this has changed as the target audience for movies has skewed closer to prepubescence.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

Steve Urkel, the Winslow family's gadget-obsessed neighbor, has grown from prepubescence to college age on the show but still dresses and talks like a four-year-old.

From Time Magazine Archive

The children, most of them stranded in the waiting room of prepubescence, look to adults for guidance and offer unconditional love in return.

From Time Magazine Archive