Words similar to coming-of-age

Example sentences for: coming-of-age

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The part about her sexual coming-of-age in San Francisco fares reasonably well.
USA Today 's Mike Clark calls the coming-of-age story set at an orphanage in 1940s Maine "passive but passable."
It is -assumed the custom has origins in pre-Columbian cultures, as a coming-of-age ritual for young women.
Mainly negative takes on book reviewer Kirn's coming-of-age novel about a troubled 14-year-old boy who tries to replace his thumb-sucking habit with various other crutches, including smoking, drinking, and Ritalin.
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.