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• s  (of animals especially human beings) having arrived at the onset of puberty (the age at which sex glands become functional) but not yet fully mature
  the budding breasts of a pubescent girl and the downy chin of pubescent boy
• s  covered with fine soft hairs or down

• Theories abound as to Sanjaya's staying power on the show, from suggestions of a flood of offshore voting to the texting power of pre-pubescent girls.
• He may look like just another plump, pubescent lad, but the 17-year-old Guru Maharaj Ji is worshiped as the "Lord of the Universe" by devotees of the Divine Light Mission in many.
• In a rant packed with curses, he said it was a worthless movement of pubescent girls who fancied the lead singers of bands.

• downy
• puberulent
• sericeous

News & Articles

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• ObamaCare: Talk to your doctor now
  Have you had “the conversation” with your doctor yet? I don’t mean the conversation you used to have with your pre-pubescent kids before the Internet and Facebook took over sex education; I mean the post-ObamaCare conversation, where you try to figure out if you’ll get to keep your...
  June 10, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Keira Knightley in AlterNet
  I wasn't particularly pleased that Shar put singing into the script - in the first couple of takes I sounded like aa pubescent boy,says Knightley, who calls her mom Shar and instead of mother.
• Bill Donohue in Indianapolis Star
  The Catholic League's Donohue writes, "Eighty percent of the victims of priest sexual abuse are male and most of them are post-pubescent. While homosexuality does not cause predatory behavior and most gay priests are not molesters, most of the...
• Biddy Baxter in Digital Spy
  What I gather is [the programme-makers] don't want to bother with the garden or makes or cooking,Baxter explained. "They don't want to do animals. It is wrong to discard areas of enormous interest to pre-pubescent children. It almost seems...