Words similar to coming-of-age

Example sentences for: coming-of-age

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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.
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 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.
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.
It is -assumed the custom has origins in pre-Columbian cultures, as a coming-of-age ritual for young women.