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  • verb Present participle of adultize.

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  • JURKOWITZ: And I think frankly, on some level, that gave that story kind of a sheen of respectability, because there was the other social angle about are we adultizing (sic) our children, basically.

    CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2006 2006

  • No, this is not the infantilizing of grown-up entertainment, it's the inverse: It's the adultizing of infants' entertainment.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RUSSELL SMITH 2011

  • No, this is not the infantilizing of grown-up entertainment, it's the inverse: It's the adultizing of infants' entertainment.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed RUSSELL SMITH 2011

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