Adult in sentence

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Not to mention what it reveals about the adult who's speaking them.

Brothers and sisters aren't the sine qua non of a happy life; plenty of adult sibling relationships are fatally broken and need to be abandoned for the sanity of everybody involved.

And I go to the jail and I see my client who's 13 and 14, and he's been certified to stand trial as an adult.

And the judge has certified him as an adult, but I see this kid.

The adult women's wages were higher.

And as an adult, I've been more aware of the great Greek myths playing out in the sky overhead every night.

And I see that opting out that happens in childhood, and it moves in and becomes more ingrained, even, by the time you get to adult life.

Then they come out as adult ants.

You're the adult.

Okay, so if I just show you the percentage errors in a large developmental study we did, this is in a study ranging from age seven to adulthood, and what you're going to see is the percentage errors in the adult group in both conditions, so the gray is the director condition, and you see that our intelligent adults are making errors about 50 percent of the time, whereas they make far fewer errors when there's no director present, when they just have to remember that rule of ignoring the gray background.

But it's when you compare the last two groups, the mid-adolescent group and the adult group where things get really interesting, because there, there is no continued improvement in the no-director condition.

The National Judicial Education Program published a document called "Judges Tell: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Presided in a Case of an Adult Victim of Sexual Assault."

I will also add that this was a child being abused by an adult in the family.

But even though I know it's difficult to sit with those feelings in a room full of strangers, if we can find our way through all of the messy feelings, I believe we will find our way to the light of compassion for that child, whose relationship with her body was damaged by an adult whose job it was to protect it.

And we'll find hope that there was a trustworthy adult who could say, "Genital response just means it was a sex-related stimulus; doesn't mean it was wanted or liked, certainly doesn't mean it was consented to.

I know famous musicians, I know actors and film stars and millionaires and novelists and top lawyers and television executives and magazine editors and national journalists and dustbinmen and hairdressers, all who were looked after children, fostered, adopted or orphaned, and many of them grow into their adult lives in fear of speaking of their background, as if it may somehow weaken their standing in the foreground, as if it were somehow Kryptonite, as if it were a time bomb strapped on the inside.

I've just got to say it to you all: I found all of my family in my adult life.

I spent all of my adult life finding them, and I've now got a fully dysfunctional family just like everybody else.

So your typical normal young adult can have a span of about three or four objects of attention.

There is one unfinished challenge that's been calling out to me for most of my adult life.

So a tempting generalization for a child, for an adult, for a computer is that any verb that can appear in the construction, "subject-verb-thing-to-a-recipient" can also be expressed as "subject-verb-recipient-thing."

Because for the majority of my adult life, I worked with young kids, teenagers with guns, I call them.

I know from my own experience that Princess Leia did not provide the adequate context that I could have used in navigating the adult world that is co-ed.

So think, for instance, of someone who has a recurring but unpredictable medical condition, or somebody who's caring for a dependent adult, or a parent with complex child care needs.

Translate this into adult language.

But using the CT scanning technology, which is normally used for medical purposes, you can go deep into the mouth and come up with this beautiful image showing you both the baby teeth here and the still-growing adult teeth here.

Up to now, the knowledge that we had about our ancestors came essentially from adult individuals because the fossils, the baby fossils, were missing.

Now hours per person are shrinking, first because of the retirement of the baby boomers, and second because there's been a very significant dropping out of the labor force of prime age adult males who are in the bottom half of the educational distribution.

Everyone in this room has been affected by a teacher or an adult.

Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.

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