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"etymology_text": "adult + -ify",
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"form": "adultifying",
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"ref": "2014, Anita Wohlmann, Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films",
"text": "Neil Postman argued for The Disappearance of Childhood in 1982, maintaining that television prematurely adultifies children by confronting them with crime and violence and other adult topics.",
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