young adult
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As a young adult, his father pushed him to study business, while his mother urged him to try PR or communications.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Figure 1 below highlights how the share of young adult women and men living with their parents has evolved over the last 30 years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
As a young adult, he dropped out of college, worked at Berkshire’s candy company See’s and eventually turned to agriculture—running a farm his father bought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
For instance, variants associated with extraversion in a young adult living in the Netherlands could also help predict extraversion in an older retired adult in the United States.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
My good fortune, the fortune that saved my life, was that he was not only a young adult but a pliable young adult, an omega animal.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
