adult life

noun

: the period from the time one became an adult

I've worked here all of my adult life.

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Ross devoted his adult life to one cause: The New Yorker magazine. —

Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025 Think of Tursi, 44, having spent every waking moment of his adult life as a working, touring musician and frequent songwriter. —

Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 10 Feb. 2025 After spending only 10 months of his adult life outside prison, he was charged by federal prosecutors with felony possession of ammunition after firing a gun into the air outside a Brooklyn building in January 2022, records show. —

Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2025 The threat has left the woman feeling torn between her desire to maintain a relationship with her father and her need for fairness in her adult life. —

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