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Still, the film does end strongly on the idea that one must — must! — ditch their stunted pubescence or risk a breakdown.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024

“I assumed it was something they put out into the world. I assumed they were profiting from it,” Rogen says of the video that leaked in his pubescence.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

The first season of the HBO series is an account of tech pubescence, that time of life when programmers, gawky but ambitious, figure out how to wield their power or prowess.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2016

It is good to see that a few young men can grope through the biochemical fog of pubescence to find a way out of this violent cycle.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2014

Fruit a small berry-like drupe, with 4 nutlets.—Shrubs, with scurfy pubescence, and small flowers in axillary cymes.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa