adult
Example Sentences
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More are set to hit the shelves for both kids and adults in the new year.
From Los Angeles Times
Less than one percent of American adults are active-duty service members in the military, with an even smaller fraction of that percentage seeing combat.
From Salon
The lactase gene determines whether adults can digest milk and affects milk digesting microbes.
From Science Daily
As an adult I acquired a different doppelgänger, not a famous actor but a fellow opinion journalist whom I happened to befriend after moving to New York in the mid-1990s.
Nearly 9 in 10 American adults feel grateful for the efforts and accomplishments of past generations that contributed to their quality of life today.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
