• She currently works at a Boston law firm and is begrudgingly learning to be a grownup.

    FORBES: When Genders Matter in Your Work Relationships

  • He seems uneasy with the world of grownup feelings, as if he were still a precocious youth.

    NEWYORKER: No Death, No Taxes

  • Hey, but we do have a grownup show for you today, a whole bunch of stuff on tap.

    NPR: Top Of The News

  • He reports that grownup college alums have been snapping up second homes in the places where they attended school.

    FORBES: Real Estate Advisor

  • It's naive to think grownup training would transform throngs of cavalier college students into thoughtful, dedicated and enlightened human beings.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Witherspoon is a woman, aged thirty-five, with a bundle of grownup roles behind her, yet she must reverse into her teens.

    NEWYORKER: Big Men

  • Rather, two years of grownup training would be a college prerequisite: Applicants without it need not bother filling out the forms.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • That is especially true since Obama continues to portray himself as the grownup in the Washington that will make compromises and keep his cool.

    FORBES: Obama's Low Poll Numbers No Solace for Detractors

  • One of our youngest presidents is positioning himself as the grownup-in-chief.

    FORBES: From Big Bird To Battleship: President Obama Puts Aside Childish Things

  • He was frail he avoided contact sports like rugby as a child and barroom pugilism as a grownup and he was frequently laid low by nervous attacks and illnesses.

    NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning

  • And beyond the obvious educational and character-building implications for the kids, grownup training would offer broader benefits to society--like cheap, dedicated labor for hospitals, schools and charities.

    FORBES: Grownup Training

  • But Feinstein is a grownup who is not just sulking about congressional prerogatives -- she truly believes that an intelligence professional is what is required for the job.

    CNN: Borger: An Obama team oops on CIA pick?

  • Clinging to such young adult fantasies, pre-adults think that grownup content is a sensation, like "Fifty Shades of Grey, " a book so poorly written as to be beyond parody.

    CNN: The novel America needs in 2013

  • Instead being the grownup and not giving in to the demands of a 6-year-old, Parham thought it made more sense to sue McDonald's to make her job as a parent easier.

    CNN: Parents, don't blame Happy Meals

  • Grownup people, people who were too old to run.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Misher talked with Forbes about his search for a way to bring Dillinger to the screen, about casting big stars and how the current climate is making it tough to sell grownup movies.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The truth of what happened to the grownup Ignacio and Enrique emerges in pieces: the three narratives, as they expand and correct one another, become a trio of mirrors producing endless off-angle reflections.

    NEWYORKER: Bad Education

  • Even if the person was a grownup.

    NEWYORKER: Tenth of December

  • We were a grownup show for awhile.

    NPR: Top Of The News

  • It would be nice, of course, to have a grownup in the Oval Office, but voters have settled twice now for something less than that because he seemed so good at the job that kept tripping others up.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • The plot is conventional: the young man gets initiated into sex and the many other fascinating and complicated rights of the grownup world that is, he gets warmed up and then burned by people more experienced and ruthless than he is.

    NEWYORKER: Me and Orson Welles

  • It's aimed at a demographic you might call "game boy graduates"--people between the ages of 18 and 34 who still like to play videogames but also have to pay attention to grownup matters like deadlines, schedules and lists of contacts.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This is not a grownup question.

    CNN: Can We Get On to Something Serious?

  • Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) has a wireless phone on the way called the N-Gage, which we noted here in February, that is being aimed at the same grownup gamer that Tapwave wants to reach.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Given your rise to the top where so many of us wish to be, I think you pretty much owe it to business women everywhere to take the high ground, be accountable for your wrongdoing and take your medicine like a grownup.

    FORBES: Connect

  • That primal triangle went fractal, very effectively: the initial model flipped several times, as Pam rejected Jim, then Jim Pam, and it was mimicked in crueller forms (Angela, Dwight, and Andy), sillier forms (Kelly, Ryan, and Darryl), and more grownup forms (Michael, Jan, and Holly), until nearly every character had dealt with some form of unspoken longing or romantic betrayal.

    NEWYORKER: Shark Week

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