legal age
noun
: the age at which a person enters into full adult legal rights and responsibilities (as of making contracts or wills)
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People who are not of legal age to consume alcohol are not advised to drink a hot toddy that contains alcohol.
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Emily Dashiell, Verywell Health, 12 Dec. 2024
Just as legal racial segregation was falling in the South, legal age segregation was rising.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Two months later, in July 2023, the legal age and state tax went into effect, and the law allowed the TDA an additional year to establish formal rules around packaging and licensing in compliance with federal and state regulations.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 12 Sep. 2024
The findings by the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas run counter to the actions, or lack of same, last year by the Legislature, which would not budge on bills that would have raised the legal age for buying military-style rifles.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Feb. 2024
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Emily Dashiell, Verywell Health, 12 Dec. 2024
Just as legal racial segregation was falling in the South, legal age segregation was rising.
—Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Two months later, in July 2023, the legal age and state tax went into effect, and the law allowed the TDA an additional year to establish formal rules around packaging and licensing in compliance with federal and state regulations.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 12 Sep. 2024
The findings by the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas run counter to the actions, or lack of same, last year by the Legislature, which would not budge on bills that would have raised the legal age for buying military-style rifles.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Feb. 2024
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legal age
noun
le·gal age
ˈlē-gəl- 
: the age at which a person enters into full adult legal rights and responsibilities (as of making contracts or wills)
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