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Example sentences for: adulthood

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With only one exception [ 11 ] , girls who undergo a relatively early menarche have been found to be more obese in adulthood [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ] , and our results confirm that a relatively early menarche is associated with adult obesity among both white and black women.
I grant teenagers their last fling of childish freedom before adulthood begins to descend.
This "ornamental culture" is like a perpetual twilight of adolescence; it is a thwarted adulthood.
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are secreted signaling molecules of the TGF-β superfamily that have been implicated in the control of a host of critical developmental phenomena in the central and peripheral nervous systems [ 1 2 3 ] . BMP-5, one of the more prominently expressed BMPs in the nervous system, has been detected in multiple regions of the nervous system throughout development and into adulthood [ 3 4 5 6 ] , yet its biological activities in the nervous system are not well defined.
These triumphs of adulthood are hard won, and as you said about children, they often spring from darkness and grief.