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It was as if all our adolescent efforts to fit it had transformed almost overnight into an adult-like notion that we had to shake ourselves from retaining a permanent label, out of fear it would end up ingrained on our tombstones.
Oscar Raymundo: The Problem With Post-Gay Oscar Raymundo 2011
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It was as if all our adolescent efforts to fit it had transformed almost overnight into an adult-like notion that we had to shake ourselves from retaining a permanent label, out of fear it would end up ingrained on our tombstones.
Oscar Raymundo: The Problem With Post-Gay Oscar Raymundo 2011
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It was as if all our adolescent efforts to fit it had transformed almost overnight into an adult-like notion that we had to shake ourselves from retaining a permanent label, out of fear it would end up ingrained on our tombstones.
Oscar Raymundo: The Problem With Post-Gay Oscar Raymundo 2011
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A larger youth utility ATV with many adult-like features, the Arctic Cat 150 has an efficient 150cc four-stroke engine that is capable of getting this little quad just about anywhere it wants to go.
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Children who go through so much in their young lives become almost adult-like in their tiny, childrens bodies.
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In children who had practiced printing by hand, the neural activity was far more enhanced and "adult-like" than in those who had simply looked at letters.
Handwriting Helps Brains Gwendolyn Bounds 2010
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It was as if all our adolescent efforts to fit it had transformed almost overnight into an adult-like notion that we had to shake ourselves from retaining a permanent label, out of fear it would end up ingrained on our tombstones.
Oscar Raymundo: The Problem With Post-Gay Oscar Raymundo 2011
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It was as if all our adolescent efforts to fit it had transformed almost overnight into an adult-like notion that we had to shake ourselves from retaining a permanent label, out of fear it would end up ingrained on our tombstones.
Oscar Raymundo: The Problem With Post-Gay Oscar Raymundo 2011
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Cornyn praised tea partiers, whom he said are tired of Washington's "failure to deal with problems like adults, in an adult-like fashion."
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Immature birdshave adult-like plumage, but are much duller, without the coloured ornamental crest feathers, or lacking the distinctive face patterns.
Penguins 2010
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