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- noun Plural form of
adulthood .
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Examples
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The sight of Linda Blair's ravaged, monstrous face is something that continues to wreck childhoods -- and for that matter, adulthoods -- nearly 40 years after the film's release.
The eight horror movies most likely to wreck a childhood Jen Chaney 2010
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The stories of troubled adulthoods following childhood flame are legion, with a certain extra mettle required to avoid the fate.
Daniel Radcliffe Talks Quitting Drinking Alcohol, Beating 'Child Star' Label 2011
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Not only are we stealing from our children's pocketbooks, we're also damning them to adulthoods of global inferiority.
Jessica Corry: The Liberal Case for Tom Tancredo Jessica Corry 2010
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Since I knew my seven main protagonists would be clones with shared childhood memories (yet vastly different adulthoods), I put a lot of effort in the pre-writing process to ensure these characters had distinct perspectives on the world.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Author Interview: J.C. Hutchins, part 2 2010
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Not only are we stealing from our children's pocketbooks, we're also damning them to adulthoods of global inferiority.
Jessica Corry: The Liberal Case for Tom Tancredo Jessica Corry 2010
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Those of us of a certain age have spent our entire adulthoods being sneered at by too-hip GOP babies who told us "yeah, we get where you old liberals are coming from -- we're just over it, and hipper than that."
The Speech, Part II 2008
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Females primarily see the celebrity-driven templates of an overt and aggressive sexuality on which to pattern their own adulthoods and fail to develop beyond 'tart' as well.
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Coates's description of his growing years in drug and violence-riddled West Baltimore is simultaneously ugly and beautiful – a glimpse into a city of barely controlled chaos and a portrait of a father clinging and dragging his children into safe adulthoods.
The Beautiful Struggle: Summary and book reviews of The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2008
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Those of us of a certain age have spent our entire adulthoods being sneered at by too-hip GOP babies who told us "yeah, we get where you old liberals are coming from -- we're just over it, and hipper than that."
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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Conference of Mayors and PolicyLink -- to conduct a California Cradle to Prison Pipeline Summit on February 25-26, 2009, in Sacramento to sound an alarm and share solutions and strategies for dismantling the pipeline to prison and rerouting children to healthy adulthoods.
Marian Wright Edelman: National Cradle to Prison Pipeline�� Summit This Week 2009
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