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as our generation approaches middle age
The patient was in late middle age.
He feared the approach of middle age.
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His weight had increased in the incremental, almost invisible fashion of middle age.
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Jeffrey Wessler, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Well into middle age by then, the former preschoolers’ lives were established, their successes and failures reasonably certain.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
Half of millennials and a third of Gen Xers still tap the Bank of Mom and Dad ‒ even in middle age and beyond.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 15 June 2026
The first is generational decline, meaning that newer generations are entering middle age while carrying higher risk factors than their predecessors.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
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Jeffrey Wessler, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Well into middle age by then, the former preschoolers’ lives were established, their successes and failures reasonably certain.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026
Half of millennials and a third of Gen Xers still tap the Bank of Mom and Dad ‒ even in middle age and beyond.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 15 June 2026
The first is generational decline, meaning that newer generations are entering middle age while carrying higher risk factors than their predecessors.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for middle age
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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middle age
noun
mid·dle age
ˌmid-ᵊl-ˈāj 
: the period of life from about 45 to about 64 years of age
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