| The same principles should carry over into the intermediate, or preadolescence, age. |
| Thorpe, who has led his generation from preadolescence, is huge in Australia, the most popular personality on the continent. |
| Whereas the humiliations of preadolescence are fodder for comedy in male characters — the squeaking voice, the pimples, the delayed growth spurt — in girls it's an age often avoided. |
| Right now there is evidence of the garden's preadolescence in the spaces between plantings, the bare patches of ground, the room left for growth. |
| When McEnroe launched his partnership with the Sportime Randall's Island Tennis Center in 2010, he said he wanted to challenge the industry orthodoxy that called for full immersion in the sport from preadolescence on. |
| Preadolescence is a new stage of life that represents the transition from childhood to adolescence. |
