adult
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After stonewalling every adult who tells him to open up, Robby does just that with an orphaned infant, saying that he, too, was abandoned by his mother as a child.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Yes, really: This idea is the impetus for exploring, in the film, whether reducing plastics can help adult men conceive.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
Three measles deaths were reported nationally last year — two among unvaccinated school-age children in Texas and one in an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Researchers analyzed registry data covering the entire adult population of Sweden to explore new ways of identifying melanoma risk.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
We’d have been rolling our eyes if it had been any other adult.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing adult
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