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  • noun Plural form of adultescent.

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Examples

  • Why is it that young adults are now referred to as "adultescents" and prolong behaviour that would be appropriate to a fifteen year old well into their twenties and even into their thirties?

    Get in on Life... 2007

  • I like "adultescents", even if Beige sounds a bit like the Grinch.

    Jen Robinson's Book Page 2008

  • And though 'The Opposite of Adults' is all rather pleasant, one cannot help but feel that any song about adultescents [I WILL NEVER USE THAT WORD AGAIN AS LONG AS I LIVE] really do not need more encouraging vis a vis not growing up.

    Drowned In Sound // Feed Wendy Roby 2010

  • The unmarried adultescents swarming the cities, the DINKs who've priced families with children out of the better suburbs, the kids who never read - these are Hollywood's most prized demographics, and

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • She wants to mingle with these kinds of adultescents.

    Jen Robinson's Book Page 2008

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