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adult

An adult is a person who is of the legal age of majority. At age 18 years, he became an adult, so he could move out without his parents' consent. Adult usually means a person who is either age 18 years or older. An adult is a human who is mentally and sexually mature. The Harry Potter series was read mostly by young adults. An adult is a sexually mature nonhuman animal. Adult female cows feed milk to their offspring.

adult

a fully developed person from maturity onward any mature animal (= grown) (of animals) fully developed an adult animal a grown woman (= pornographic) designed to arouse lust pornographic films and magazines adult movies

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Topics adult topics

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Simple sentences

Judging by the photograph, this was an adult male.
Tom said that he would carry on helping his adult children.
I'm an adult now, too.
Childhood experiences are the driving force that shape every adult.
You are now an adult.
That child talks as if he were an adult.
I'm afraid this story is too adult for children to appreciate.
Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as an adult.
Sixty percent of Japanese adult males drink alcoholic beverages on a regular basis.
He treats me as an adult.
Is it more fun being a child or an adult?
If you weren't exposed to a language until you were an adult, you are very, very unlikely to ever sound like a native speaker of that language.
In this legal system, corporal punishment is imposed on adult men only.
When did your daughter become an adult?
Tom is an adult now.
Now that you are an adult, you should know better.
From an adult's one-sided point of view, children's attitudes often seem to be disobedient.
What is the maximum dosage for an adult?
Whenever Beth's parents have guests, she wants to join their adult talk.
You're an adult now.
Now you're an adult.
Now you are an adult.
He has two adult sons.

Movie subtitles

You are now a healthy adult man.
I should just be the adult.
The adult anophelese is found in every home.
If the dead person is an adult the body is tied to a ladder and carried to the cemetery.
It says Aspects of the Adult Mind.
That's enough to put down two adult elephants.
Johann, have you ever seen a really adult man?
An adult.
Oh, we forget nobody - adult or child.
No playwright in the world could make me believe this would happen between two adult people.
By the premature adoption of an extreme belief and creed, it is well to understand this in looking to the duties of adult life, in particular, the married state, when you will emerge into a world of grown-up problems for the first time.
An adult woman who should have resigned herself or should find comfort in Jesus or in her grandchildren.
A woman who was a star of adult videos.
It wasn't very adult of me, and I believe in being adult.
He made his adult acting debut as Claude Rains in 1911, again at the Haymarket Theatre, his voice and speech problems conquered.
Sure, you're an adult.
Well, she's an unusually adult young woman.
Now, can't we talk this over like sensible adult persons?
We are now dealing with a sane and adult scientist, and I anticipate no difficulties.
If I was an adult, I could prove it to you all.
Aggravated by adult experiences.
What were those adult experiences?
To take responsibilities, you must be an adult.
Is there any adult who hasn't lied?
At this moment the growth capacity of your body is as limited as any adult's.
I can ride half fare if I'm with an adult.
You were just telling me how you've stress-chewed through so many pencils you're gonna have to get adult braces again.
Now, what I want from you children is adult passion!
Missing Persons, Adult. McDermott.
Be an adult!
But, you'll have to obey an adult.
You are already an adult.
I'm a bit too adult to cover up for that kind of a woman.
You're supposed to be an adult but you act childish.
Daisy is legally an adult.
You know what? When you do certain things, it means your becoming an adult.

News and current affairs

Tobacco taxes are probably the single most cost-effective intervention for adult health in the world.
Every cell in your body (except mature red blood cells) - there are about 50 trillion in an adult - contains copies of your DNA, which are coiled up tightly to form 46 separate bundles called chromosomes.
A stem cell can come from an embryo, fetus or adult.
Another kind of stem cell is also in the news - the adult stem cell.
Within the hippocampus - a curved elongated ridge located in each of the brain's two temporal lobes - is a structure called the dentate gyrus, which produces new neurons throughout adult life.
It is far more rational to spend a little extra income now for a few years of schooling than face decades of social costs resulting from masses of uneducated adult workers!
BERKELEY - The first time I went to Washington, DC, as an adult was in 1993, when I arrived to work for President Bill Clinton in the Treasury Department.
Addressing inequality requires greater redistribution through national tax systems, together with enhanced programs for adult education, presumably making heavy use of new technologies.
For my entire adult life, Britain's sense of its place in the world has been largely defined by Winston Churchill's leadership during World War II and his views of our role in the world when that war was over.
Social services, including health care and disease control, education, and adult literacy programs should also be promoted.
Consider how long it takes an adult to learn to speak a language or a musician to master the violin.
By definition, development is not just more of the same, just as an adult is not just a big baby.
Adult male mortality is much higher than in the rest of Europe, and it has not been improving.
Despite a modest uptick in the last three months, government employment is 569,000 below its June 2009 level - a 30-year low as a share of the adult civilian population.
Any adult who was alive in the US during these three decades realizes that this number grossly understates the gains of the typical household.
The risks posed by this epidemic are manifold, but the main one is that childhood obesity begets adult obesity, with significantly increased risks of diabetes and heart disease.
Within my adult lifetime, we have moved from the murder of civil-rights campaigners in the US to the election of a black president.
When we gave adult canaries the tagged DNA building block and then looked for tagged neurons that would have been born one or two days earlier, we found none.
It took at least a week for the first new neurons to reach their destination and acquire the looks of an adult neuron.
One of the paradoxes of this process is that in adult birds and mammals the total number of brain cells remains remarkably constant.
Adult literacy rates in South Asia match the global norm.
It seems likely that the replacement of neurons in the adult brain did not evolve to make up losses due to illness or lesion, but as a process of constant renewal, a few cells being replaced every day.

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