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How to pronounce grownup in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms adult
Type of person, individual, someone, somebody, soul, mortal
Has types catch, centrist, character, conservative, conservativist, disarmer, dolichocephalic, eccentric, elder, ex-spouse, fascist, golden ager, homebody, host, important person, professional person, adult female, adult male, brachycephalic, caregiver, case, sophisticate, stay-at-home, stoic, thoroughbred, type, unemotional person, warmonger, woman, influential person, jack of all trades, liberal, liberalist, man, man of the world, match, middle of the roader, militarist, moderate, moderationist, old person, oldster, pacificist, pacifist, patrician, personage, pledgee, pledger, professional, progressive, senior, senior citizen, sobersides
Type Words
Synonyms adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown

Examples of grownup

grownup
The whiskey stings, but he tries to hide it, like a small child playing grownup.
From the time.com
A 12-year-old hurling a brick can be just as lethal as one thrown by a grownup.
From the suntimes.com
As the grownup, I don't even wait for their mother and father to say something.
From the cnn.com
You could look at the controversy as a grownup version of high school, says Ross.
From the suntimes.com
It was our first piece of work for someone else, and made us feel really grownup.
From the guardian.co.uk
And you are a silly teenager who is too lazy to type full words like a grownup.
From the ideas.time.com
They went out looking for a grownup who knows what he's doing, and they found one.
From the denverpost.com
I'll buy the grownup investment piece that they tell you is going to last forever.
From the time.com
Never in a million years thinking it was something a grownup could grow up and do.
From the theatlantic.com
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