reach adulthood
Example Sentences
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Even after children reach adulthood, parents may continue to see them as needing protection, rather than as capable of confronting difficult truths.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
The money in the accounts may also help foster children when they reach adulthood.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
If the timing system that controls development fails, an organism may never progress through the stages needed to reach adulthood.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Even when they reach adulthood and run into trouble, we are told, some seek out the teachers and coaches who mentored them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Hardly taller than I, she was much wider—not stout, but wide, which is the direction gnomes grow after they reach adulthood.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
