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Discover LudwigThe phrase "attain adulthood" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a period of life in which a person gains the rights and responsibilities of an adult, which typically occurs around age 18. For example, "His friends were excited to attend his 18th birthday celebration, as it marked the moment where he would attain adulthood."
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Girls attain adulthood by means of similar practices: the cutting or piercing of sexual organs.
For some species, determining the age at which individuals disperse relative to the age at which they attain adulthood can be difficult, as it may be impractical to monitor individuals from the day they are born until the day they disperse.
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After he had attained adulthood, a young Greek could participate in military service and could marry.
When Pururavas attained adulthood, Sudyumma left his kingdom to Pururavas and went to the forest for penance.
If he was the former, he may have attained adulthood by the 960s, when a man of his name raided Westmorland.
At the time Tatsuoki was young but, as he attained adulthood, he was eventually considered incapable of effective leadership by his peers and retainers, viewed with contempt by his subordinates, and even despised by the local peasantry.
Number of the insects that attained adulthood was not different between the antibiotic treatment and the control treatment (Fig. 2A).
Number of the insects that attained adulthood was not different between the offspring of Nardonella-free insects and the offspring of Nardonella-infected insects (Fig. 3A).
Ninety-six hours later, the number of animals per brood that had attained adulthood were counted.
They referred to young people with SCD existing not dying, attaining adulthood, obtaining gainful employment and achieving a high status occupation (medical doctor), and appeared to find such conceptions enabling.
She's the 27-year-old Frances Handley, five years out of Vassar, trying to define her identity, to progress in her chosen vocation as a modern dancer and attain the adulthood society expects of us.
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