young adult
Americannoun
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young adults
plural
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a teenager (used especially by publishers and librarians).
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a person in the early years of adulthood.
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Steer clear of constant checking and tracking or intervening These may soothe you in the short term, but can inadvertently communicate to your young adult: "I am not sure you can cope without me."
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
There’s an alternate universe where Taylor Tomlinson is a young adult fantasy author holed up in a cabin miles from civilization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Figure 1 below highlights how the share of young adult women and men living with their parents has evolved over the last 30 years.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
As a young adult, he dropped out of college, worked at Berkshire’s candy company See’s and eventually turned to agriculture—running a farm his father bought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But she said that growing up and as a young adult, she never had a dentist to go to, so she had done her best.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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