noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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Indigestion had been a problem since early adulthood , but was controlled with antacids.
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A pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
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All this, of course, falls within the range of normal experience, as you move through your early adulthood .
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It is one of several hormones that hit peak levels in the bloodstream in early adulthood and then decline steadily.
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Animals might mature faster: a pressurised poultry house, for example, could hurry chickens to earlier adulthood .
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Despite her love of exercise, her health had been poor since her early adulthood and she was bedridden for many years.
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Perhaps the most arresting part of Get Happy is the section on Garland's late youth and early adulthood .
young
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We were thrilled in June to have the first live sea-lion pup born and subsequently raised to young adulthood .
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Learning, education, and intellectual growth in most cases were restricted to the period from childhood to young adulthood .
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Children were especially vulnerable, but many also died in young or middle adulthood .
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In late adolescence and young adulthood , planning skills were in turn related to social functioning and parenting behaviour.
■ VERB
reach
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Her death was probably accidental, but I doubt that will be much consolation to her children when they reach adulthood .
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The proportion reaching adulthood , however, does not usually warrant attempting to raise them as larger live food for fish.
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I couldn't break free of the habit even after I reached adulthood .
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Amelia bore eight children in her gracious house, six of whom would reach adulthood .
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In any event, relatively few cortical neurons are lost after reaching adulthood .
survive
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If an animal is a parent, it must be good enough to survive at least to adulthood .
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Onbr the youngest of her children survived to adulthood .
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We do not really know why a greater number of people began to survive into adulthood during this period.
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Of the several hundred thousand children who become blind every year, less than half survive to adulthood .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Children with the disease have little chance of surviving to adulthood .
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Nowadays young people want to leave home as soon as they reach adulthood .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And I believed it until adulthood .
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Cyril had been stranded, orphaned, in adulthood , in the land of the grown-up.
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It tracks her adulthood into old age.
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Learning, education, and intellectual growth in most cases were restricted to the period from childhood to young adulthood .
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Most adults with cystic fibrosis were found to be living fulfilling lives into adulthood .
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The foregoing paragraphs dispose, it is hoped, of some mistaken ideas as to the state and progress of sexuality in adulthood .
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They had four sons, two surviving to adulthood .
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Under what circumstances does childhood disorder continue into adulthood ?