grown-up
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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
We’re blessed that Fanning survived the transition from precocious child actor to grown-up movie star with the skills to play a fictional disaster rather than be one offscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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
Where Barbie presented a grown-up future, the American Girl dolls and their companion books encouraged children to be children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Hanako thought it over, and she did not want to go into the market, but she also did not want to remain here without a grown-up.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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