How to Use come of age in a Sentence
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Schneider came of age in a time when gay bars were essentially destinations for safety.
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Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 May 2024
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Young people want to pursue jobs that will catapult them into the elite—which today means that people coming of age want to be influencers.
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Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2026
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It’s been a long time coming Swift’s music has served as the soundtrack to a generation of adolescent heartbreaks and coming of age crises.
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Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
4 July 2026
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Melissa Gilbert starred as young Laura, who came of age on the American frontier through periods of great hardship and joy.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 July 2026
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For the CEOs who came of age in the 2000s, Freakonomics functioned less as a book and more as a training ground.
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Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
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Big sister Mary is balancing the extra responsibilities of being the eldest with coming of age on the prairie.
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Sabienna Bowman,
PEOPLE,
8 July 2026
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Since the Baby Boomers came of age in the 1970s, each successive generation has fared worse than the last, some researchers say.
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Jennifer Liu
ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
29 June 2026
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Well, the nation came of age industrially after the Wright brothers' historic flight and has been a leader in aerospace tech and exploration ever since.
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Mike Wall,
Space.com,
4 July 2026
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Even if the next emanation is discovered within months, Tibetans face a perhaps two-decade interregnum while his successor comes of age.
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Charlie Campbell,
Time,
9 July 2026
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Gen Z came of age watching a pandemic overwhelm hospitals, saw clinicians speak openly about moral injury, and watched colleagues leave medicine entirely.
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Frantz M. Berthaud,
STAT,
7 July 2026
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In this new suspenseful mystery that’s also an examination of our country’s racial history, a girl comes of age in post–Civil War Virginia as Reconstruction collapses.
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Shyla Watson,
PEOPLE,
6 July 2026
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