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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For many adults, the beauty book triggered memories of a pre-social-media childhood spent cutting pictures out of magazines and pasting them into notebooks.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026 -
Or the move could have been to help the calf stay afloat—unlike adults, young sperm whales tend to sink and need to swim harder to reach the surface to breathe.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Grown-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grown-ups. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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