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Princeton's WordNet

  1. growing painsnoun

    pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth

  2. growing painsnoun

    emotional distress arising during adolescence

  3. growing painsnoun

    problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages)

Wiktionary

  1. growing painsnoun

    generalized pains in the limbs or joints of adolescents (from many causes)

  2. growing painsnoun

    emotional or social problems associated with adolescence

  3. growing painsnoun

    difficulties that arise in the early stages of any project

Wikipedia

  1. Growing Pains

    Growing Pains is an American television sitcom created by Neal Marlens that aired on ABC from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992. The show ran for seven seasons, consisting of 166 episodes. The series followed the misadventures of the Seaver family, which included psychiatrist and father Jason, journalist and mother Maggie, and their children Mike, Carol, Ben, and Chrissy.

Wikidata

  1. Growing Pains

    Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an affluent family, residing in Huntington, Long Island, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on ABC from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992.

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    Read the full text of the Growing Pains poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis on the Poetry.com website.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of growing pains in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of growing pains in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of growing pains in a Sentence

  1. David Shafer:

    One of my concerns when we lost all these elections, was that people would just give up on the Republican Party, and give up on resisting the progressives, but that's clearly not happened, there's been a surge of interest, but the people that are interested are just are distrustful of authority –of all types of authority –and there’s some growing pains.

  2. Greg Block:

    We know there will be growing pains, but thousands of people are riding these things. Anytime we get somebody out of car and on scooter, that's better for everybody.

  3. Howard Tai:

    To me, this is all part of the growing pains of China trying to liberalize its financial markets to become an important player on the world stage, and from a technicality standpoint, they are learning to deal with the various issues that come with that.

  4. Paul Ryan:

    I think what you're seeing is we're going through the inevitable growing pains of being an opposition party to becoming a governing party.

  5. Renaissance Capital Kennedy:

    They still have work to do on the product. There's still some growing pains, to put Truth Social kindly, truth Social's difficult work to build out a social media app.


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