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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For instance, variants associated with extraversion in a young adult living in the Netherlands could also help predict extraversion in an older retired adult in the United States.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Brennan Drolet, a senior at Endicott College in Massachusetts, has determined that home ownership is not his top financial priority as he begins his life as a young adult.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Skates said he still recognised the anxiety that affected him as a child and young adult, but has learned to manage it through treatment and talking therapies.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The genre is popular with viewers: 23 young adult titles made Netflix’s global top 10 list this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Anatole has reorganized the secondary school, which had been in pure collapse for ten years—hardly a young adult in Kimvula village can read.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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