adult
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You also have no debt, no mortgage and no outstanding obligations to your adult children.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
We recently told you about the rampant grift in New York’s Medicaid “social adult day care” program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
The AI illustration has pulled liberally from all three trilogies, placing the adult faces of Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher on the children.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026
As a young adult, Bass began working as a physician assistant at Children’s Hospital and other facilities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
Each adult chicken will drink approximately 2 cups of water per day.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
Teenagers and young adults strive for deeper conversations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
They compared cognitively healthy young adults in their early 20s with older participants ranging from their mid-60s to mid-70s.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Across the country, roughly 2.6 million LGBTQ+ adults are parents to minor children.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
The same survey found that 30% of adults between the ages of 19 and 64 are paying off medical debt.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
“Grown-up relationships can be very complicated. Not even adults understand them sometimes.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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