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• s  (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth

• In sports where limber, prepubescent bodies can outmaneuver more mature athletes, kids can be designated as older than they are.
• So the country's hardest-working prepubescent is making Charlotte's Web after she's done with War of the Worlds.
• Public fascination and repulsion over the makeup, costumes and prepubescent swimsuit competitions at times overshadowed the crime of child murder itself.

• prepubertal

News & Articles

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• Bra Boutiques Bloom as Big Bazongas Bewilder the Bamboobled!
  Strapping in for the long haul. (Photo by Vecchio/Three Lions/Getty Images) As a young woman, one of the most memorable coming-of-age moments is being taken to get your first bra: equal parts mortifying and thrilling, it’s one of those prepubescent rites that most adults wouldn’t care to repeat. And yet a colleague and I recently found ourselves re-enacting a scene from Judy Blume in the ...
  June 11, 2013 - The New York Observer

Quotes

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• Ernie Allen in SYS-CON Media
  Nearly 60 percent of the identified children shown in the child abuse images or videos are prepubescent, while an estimated six percent are infants,Allen said. "What we're seeing today, however, is a horrifying trend where the child...