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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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This is particularly true of inmates who are middle age and older because the diagnostic tools were not as sophisticated during their childhoods.
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Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Now in middle age, Leanne’s life as she’s known it (the sitcom version, at least) has been turned upside down.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
These figures highlight a clear shift: homeownership is increasingly delayed, turning what was once a milestone of early adulthood into a luxury reserved for late middle age.
—Alexander Frei, Boston Herald, 23 June 2025
That curve has long shown younger people with high happiness levels, which decline into middle age.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
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Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Now in middle age, Leanne’s life as she’s known it (the sitcom version, at least) has been turned upside down.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
These figures highlight a clear shift: homeownership is increasingly delayed, turning what was once a milestone of early adulthood into a luxury reserved for late middle age.
—Alexander Frei, Boston Herald, 23 June 2025
That curve has long shown younger people with high happiness levels, which decline into middle age.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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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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