Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Various indefinite pains about the joints, especially of the lower extremities, in children and adolescents.
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Examples
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Baby steps, really, in an uphill movement still in growing-pains phase.
Reinventing the Two-Wheeler Nancy Keates 2011
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"It is impossible to say whether this indicates the incipient decline of an art whose talent flowered remarkably early or simply that every new departure implies growing-pains."
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Thus far, the marketing has been timid and unsure of who the audience is---it feels exclusive, like a growing-pains indie.
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Economist Jim O'Leary of the Dublin stockbrokers Davy, for one, concurs with the growing-pains diagnosis, and is thrilled by the work he sees in progress.
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Just a few months ago Larry Diamond, professor at Stanford University, did a talk for ITASA in which he blamed President Chen and Taiwan's democracy growing-pains as a primary factor to why Chinese in China are put off by it.
Has Taiwan Screwed Up China's Chances for Demcoracy? Michael Turton 2007
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The mishmash we see in current voice-use is, I believe, simply the growing-pains of learning how and when to use a new technology.
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These pains are commonly known as "growing-pains" and, inasmuch as they are rheumatic and not "growing pains," they should be regarded seriously because of the heart damage they might do if ignored, and especially so since the mildest attacks of rheumatism, without any joint symptoms even, frequently leave the heart in very bad shape.
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That night old Betty forgot her growing-pains and sang to the boy,
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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"What is her complaint?" said I. "It iss the growing-pains, in her old legs, and in the top of her oxters -- wild, bad, ay, terrible bad."
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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Another boat comes in to be lengthened: it has growing-pains, and wants assistance.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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