adult
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It’s a vicious circle that many families get stuck in, as caregiver parents age and their adult children with special needs have to step in to try to keep households running as best they can.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
The government wants to reduce the number of young people those disclosure rules apply to if an applicant has not continued to offend as an adult.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
And so, Nick and I did the most adult thing yet in the course of our decades-long friendship: I interviewed him about fashion as art, fake receipts, portable Chihulies and, of course, his favorite Birkin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
One of the biggest puzzles surrounding Homo naledi involves the remarkably similar appearance of adult fossils recovered from the cave's Dinaledi Chamber.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
“It’s one thing go off island as an adult, go explore and learn and come back. It’s another thing take a keiki away from this land.”
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
The researchers enrolled 184 adults between the ages of 18 and 40 who were still struggling with knee symptoms one to three years after their operations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
They hope it will inspire these girls to continue sport as young women and adults.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Such steps are important, yet less than one third of U.S. adults have a living will or advance directives, according to the Pew Research Center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Rather than using typical older adults as the comparison group, they examined people with Alzheimer's disease who were approximately the same age as the super agers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
Even an ordinary child who had been raised indoors and was used to the strange ways of adults would find such a meal intolerably dull.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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