Words similar to coming-of-age

Example sentences for: coming-of-age

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Arthur Rubel writes about the supportive social environment provided by the palomilla of young coming-of-age Chicanos in the barrio of New Lots in south Texas.
The Kennedy Bildungsroman --his coming-of-age, from fumbling the Bay of Pigs invasion to resolving the Cuban missile crisis--is a tired tale, but newly validated by The Kennedy Tapes , Ernest May and Philip Zelikow's edition of the transcripts of those crucial ExComm meetings of October 1962.
For the contemporary Chicano male, el bato loco is not only a symbol of ethnic identity but also an icon of the urban coming-of-age experience itself.
The word became more nationally known in 1959 with the publication of the novel Pocho by Jose Antonio Villarreal, which depicted the coming-of-age of a Chicano growing up in the Santa Clara Valley of California during the 1940s.
USA Today 's Mike Clark calls the coming-of-age story set at an orphanage in 1940s Maine "passive but passable."