adult

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In a AAA survey of U.S. adults last year, only 16% said they were either “very likely” or “likely” to buy an EV as their next car, the lowest percentage in six years.

From MarketWatch

We had run long in a day—a hundred and fifty miles—with an adult team in good shape.

From Literature

Around two thirds of adults in the UK are overweight or obese.

From BBC

There have also been concerns that age assurance technologies would wrongly block adults while failing to spot underage users.

From BBC

The company said the deal will make it a leader in pediatric low-grade glioma, a brain tumor, and expand its pipeline for drugs targeting adult and pediatric cancers with high unmet needs.

From The Wall Street Journal