young adult
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Erin Moriarity started saving and investing in her teens, and was “aggressively chasing FIRE” as a young adult “through very traditional behaviors: working, budgeting, and saving and investing,” she told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026
Instead, it shows that traditional campus structures are falling behind digital alternatives in the face of the social anxiety of the 21st-century young adult.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
When young adult author Courtney Summers got the rights back to her backlisted titles in 2024, she initially wasn’t sure what to do with them.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
As a young adult, Fern enjoyed what appeared to be a happy marriage to Charles “Handsome Charlie” Eldredge, a doting bank cashier, before tragedy struck, and struck again.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
It’s all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you’re a young adult.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
