pre-adult
Example Sentences
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Every scene with the terrifically naturalistic child actors rings with some truth about pre-adult life.
From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022
Some twixters may want to grow up, but corporations and advertisers have a real stake in keeping them in a tractable, exploitable, pre-adult state�living at home, spending their money on toys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some twixters may want to grow up, but corporations and advertisers have a real stake in keeping them in a tractable, exploitable, pre-adult state--living at home, spending their money on toys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Compared with their predecessors, Americans in the pre-adult age brackets have, for the past ten years, been nearly invisible.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the authority of father or mother over the children, there is not much trace in Australia except in the most youthful period of the pre-adult life.
From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge
