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Clerics tend to be graybeards who have distinguished themselves through scholarship.—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards.—Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022 Joe Thornton, the Bruins' No. 1 draft pick in 1997, is now an NHL graybeard.—Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022 While Diener is the graybeard of the team, 24-year-old Sacar Anim is the youngest.—Ben Steele, Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for graybeard
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