as in childhood
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Noun
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After months of clashes on multiple issues, the 2025 legislative session ended last week with new legislation passed on the state budget, early childhood education, gun safety, affordable housing and electricity prices.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
8 June 2025 -
Reactive narcissism, however, tends to form as a response to neglectful, inconsistent or abusive childhood experiences.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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His public defender, Amy Smith, during his sentencing detailed a childhood and adolescence fraught with abuse and poverty.—
Alex Brizee,
Idaho Statesman,
14 June 2025
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During his adolescence, the sensibility among the youth was to turn away from the gentility of the race man and toward the existential and the militant.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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“Boyhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boyhood. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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