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The years immediately preceding the period or age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction of offspring

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Usage examples (14)
  • People who don't know any better figure that I must be an pretty good gamer; I've got freaky-good reflexes, and a superior sense of aim that was honed to near-perfection in...
  • In fact, in Junior High School, I was a tiny little shriveled mess of prepubescence.
  • “Where you from?” she asked in a high-pitched voice that could only be an affected attempt at prepubescence.
  • Your post prodded me to reflect on my prepubescence -- I was really rather conservative and shy and never found myself in such circumstances.
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