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Six example sentences with adulthood, each labelled with its topic.
The study followed the same children into adulthood, checking in every five years until the youngest turned thirty.
Psychology
Loggerhead turtles reach adulthood only after twenty five years at sea, which is why losing one nesting beach matters.
Environment
The novel skips the narrator's teenage years entirely and resumes in adulthood, with a mortgage and two restless children.
Literature
The law fixes adulthood at eighteen, the birthday on which a person can sign a lease without a parent's signature.
Law
Some heart conditions found in infancy need checkups well into adulthood, so the clinic keeps patients long after childhood ends.
Medicine
A custodial savings account belongs to the child at adulthood, and no parent can keep it locked past that birthday.
Finance
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