as in adults
a fully grown person
once you turn 12, you get to eat with the grown-ups at Thanksgiving
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adults
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Last year, researchers reported one of the lowest counts of adults since the 1970s — which was not long after protections to ban the commercial whaling industry were put in place.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
5 Mar. 2026 -
By the second half of the twentieth century, media depictions of bicycles often showed them as something exclusively for children, or for odd, childish adults.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Grown-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grown-ups. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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