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Meanings of grown adults in English

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Usage of grown adults in English
1
When all involved children are full- grown adults with regrets of their own.
Ebony
2
I have never heard of small schoolgirls intimidating or threatening grown adults.
The Irish Times
3
I'll spring them in a few years when they're full- grown adults.
Declaration of Courtship
4
Dahlia plants, bought as full- grown adults, had likewise succumbed to the mashing molluscs.
The Irish Times
5
Can we just remind ourselves that the people making these threats are fully grown adults?
News.com.au
6
Now, as grown adults, we all know that sex has the potential to complicate relationships.
The South African
7
A group of grown adults standing around pretending to chuckle -are you having a laugh?
The Irish Times
8
They all looked to be fully grown adults, and their rumbling growls actually vibrated through the ground.
The Necromancer
9
But there's a reason grown adults still have dreams (or nightmares) about resitting their Leaving Cert.
The Irish Times
10
In other words, fully grown adults.
The strain
11
The video allegedly shows that two groups of fully- grown adults going inside the compounds targeted by the B-1.
Wired
12
The film's final scenes, showing the actual figures themselves as grown adults, gesture at healing, closure and forgiveness.
The Guardian
13
That was expressly forbidden, but they all did it, and you can't be that strict with grown adults.
Melnitz
14
Midgets marry same as other people, and strange to relate, fully half of them wed full grown adults.
David Lannarck, Midget / An Adventure Story
15
This is an important teachable moment for young men, boys and even some full- grown adults who don't understand consent.
Ebony
16
But in imperfectly grown adults the jaw retains the infantile character,-theshort vertical portion necessarily implying the obtuse angle.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 / A Magazine...
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