adulthood
Example Sentences
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We wanted pasta that stretched and sighed, casseroles that arrived bubbling and bronzed, soups that tasted like something rescued from memory and improved by adulthood.
From Salon
In some ways, early adulthood has always been a time of instability.
From BBC
Polar bears in the wild only have a 50% chance of surviving into adulthood, but having a mother caring for them improves their odds.
From BBC
In the words of prosecutor Paul Greaney KC: "Those efforts to rehabilitate himself after a difficult early adulthood only serve to make more shocking, and tragic, what he did in Liverpool that day this May."
From BBC
The study tracked 128 adults in midlife and older adulthood, most of whom had chronic musculoskeletal pain related to or at risk of knee osteoarthritis.
From Science Daily
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