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How to use the word adulthood in a Sentence?

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Too often I find that young people are overwhelmed by adulthood, and I think they just need someone to sit with them and encourage them to take it one thing at a time. one simple rule.

Bo Petterson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s intimidating to think about friendship in adulthood, and often overwhelm keeps us from even trying.

Adam Smiley Poswolsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These early metabolic changes from PFAS exposure persist into early adulthood, the effects are the same even though the mixtures of the PFAS differ, which bolsters the belief that these chemicals need to be banned as a class instead of one by one.

Lida Chatzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things that’s really important is these early dietary behaviors, this is really when kids are laying the foundation for some of those dietary behaviors, so starting out strong and making sure that they’re creating these healthy behaviors … that’s going to set them up as they go into adolescence and adulthood.

Heather Hamner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Though these cognitive processes naturally develop from infancy through adulthood, they are also impacted by the experiences that we have and when we have them in our development.

Erika Chiappini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they are applying, they need it, at a time when free meals have never been needed more in my adulthood, we're taking it away from them.

Jen Bove

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The signs were there from young adulthood.

Kenneth Dunsmuir

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Alternatively, it could reflect that high triglycerides in early adulthood may trigger a cascade of metabolic events that over time initiate processes that directly lead to Alzheimer's disease.

Lindsay Farrer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's one of the things we're looking at in the laboratory, as well as to find out what is our suitable donor age. We believe it's probably going to be somewhere in early adulthood to where you would still have a viable thymus for transplant purposes.

Joseph Turek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I wanted to do it because I've seen other kids age out of the system … and go through adulthood and really suffer, i just wanted to make sure that she knew that she had a parent that would fight for her.

Leah Paskalides

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

About 22 % to 30 % of people reported that their first experiences of weight stigma happened by age 10, but weight stigma by family persists over time, well into adulthood, that really speaks to the need to address the family environment, which often gets neglected in the context of weight stigma.

Rebecca Puhl

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The first queen to become an adult, she may try to kill the other queens before they've reached adulthood. It's like the knives are out, and in some cases the workers try to stop the fighting.

Francis Ratnieks

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The population health impacts are likely to be even higher in countries such as the United States, that have a much higher prevalence of both early-term and preterm birth. Future studies should examine early-term birth as a separate group whenever feasible to better understand its long-term health trajectory in adulthood.

Casey Crump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

A common dilemma in this kind of research is that we have the information we need to establish associations between conditions in childhood and health outcomes in adulthood, but we know quite little about whatever is happening in between.

Ylva Almquist

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We want to highlight that this is a very novel finding and this has not been reported before, thus there is no previous evidence to support these findings, and further research examining the specific stages of sleep development in childhood are needed, however, these findings might be explained by the fact that sleep highly varies in early childhood( compared to later stages, such as adolescence and adulthood), and that specific sleep patterns might have different significance and effects at specific stages of the child ´ s development.

Isabel Morales-Munoz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That's not very hard to train. It's not rocket science, it's really just about reaching the peak of your adulthood and not going past the age where there are diminishing returns.

Nicholas Dodman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Here is an animal that has all kinds of signals of being a juvenile, outside its bones, inside its bones, in its joints, and it has long, isolated plumes extending from its already-very-long tail. This is quite different from living birds and tells us that these decorative feathers preceded adulthood in dinosaurs. Of course, perhaps they're using these feathers in a very different way from living birds, too.

Ashley Poust

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Since the study is based on electronic medical records and diagnoses noted in these records, I think the rates in the study reflect multiple factors, including the increasing awareness of clinicians about ADHD in adulthood and the increasing awareness of patients about ADHD in adulthood, a trend we have seen in other research studies is that there is an increase in people seeking psychiatric care generally, which may also reflect a positive trend in reduced stigma to talking [ about ] psychiatric symptoms and seeking appropriate help for them.

Hanna Stevens

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The rise in rates in people in middle age is going to be carried with them into older adulthood.

Yeates Conwell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying, It got lost, and say, I lost it.

Sydney J. Harris

added by Normando
5 years ago

One of the most consistent findings over the past few decades has been a link between cities and psychosis, children who are born and raised in urban versus rural settings are almost twice as likely to develop psychosis in adulthood.

Joanne Newbury

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's not just early introduction. It's routine feeding. It's habituating. We need to make a habit of eating very diverse foods, it's a great habit to have your whole life, because 50 % of people who develop a food allergy develop it in adulthood.

Wendy Sue Swanson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Meghan McCain was Meghan McCain kryptonite in life, Meghan McCain was Meghan McCain kryptonite in death. On a personal level, I agree with you, all of us have love and families, and when Meghan McCain was alive, up until adulthood, we would spend our time together cooking, hiking, fishing, really celebrating life, and I think it's because Meghan McCain almost died, and I just thought,' your life is spent on the weekend not with your family, not with your friends, but you're obsessing, obsessing over great men you could never live up to.' That tells you everything you need to know about his pathetic life right now.

Meghan McCain

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It takes years to comprehend the trauma of child sex abuse, well into adulthood, to decide whether to move forward, what police do when they destroy rape kits, and other evidence of crimes against children before the statute of limitations has passed, is rob them of their full chance at justice.

Marci Hamilton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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