grown-up
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Where Barbie presented a glamorously grown-up future, these dolls encouraged children to be children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
In retrospect, Robert Freeman’s autumnal, artfully distorted photograph was an entirely apt image for a worldlier, darker, more grown-up Beatles record.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Clara Govier, managing director of the Postcode Lottery, said: "Dolly understood the extraordinary power of something very simple: a child, a grown-up and a book."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“I don’t feel like a grown-up yet, and now I pay a mortgage, and fix pipes and clean gutters.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mama took me on the mail cart to see two of my grown-up sisters, who had taken jobs in the city.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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