adult life
noun
: the period from the time one became an adult
I've worked here all of my adult life.
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Four years after Kahlo’s death in 1954, Casa Azul was converted into the popular Museo Frida Kahlo, which displays art and objects from Kahlo’s adult life alongside rotating exhibitions.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2025
In fact, the clergyman formerly known as Robert Prevost spent much of his adult life residing outside the United States.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Though he’s lived abroad for much of his adult life, the new pope studied at the Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park and worked in Chicago, including a stint teaching at St. Rita High.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 9 May 2025
In a way, this is the ultimate initiation into adult life, which so often involves our having to situate ourselves in relation to world views that fundamentally don’t make sense to us.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2025
In fact, the clergyman formerly known as Robert Prevost spent much of his adult life residing outside the United States.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Though he’s lived abroad for much of his adult life, the new pope studied at the Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park and worked in Chicago, including a stint teaching at St. Rita High.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 9 May 2025
In a way, this is the ultimate initiation into adult life, which so often involves our having to situate ourselves in relation to world views that fundamentally don’t make sense to us.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 4 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for adult life
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“Adult life.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adult%20life. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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