the middle-aged
noun
: middle-aged people : people between the age of about 40 and the age of about 60
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The store with the old oak floor was so charming, the middle-aged writers who hung around the lunch counter ordering vegan BLTs were charming.
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Hayley Krischer, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
No one to observe the lovers, no one to envy the middle-aged man with the much younger girl taking a romantic (if windy) walk along the beach at Cape May in December.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
The cancer, which had begun in the breast, had found its way into the patient’s spinal fluid, rendering the middle-aged mother of two unable to walk.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Rather than reject their advances, Max performs the middle-aged male mating call: jogging in a pair of grey sweatpants with no underwear.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 3 Apr. 2025
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Hayley Krischer, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
No one to observe the lovers, no one to envy the middle-aged man with the much younger girl taking a romantic (if windy) walk along the beach at Cape May in December.
—Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2025
The cancer, which had begun in the breast, had found its way into the patient’s spinal fluid, rendering the middle-aged mother of two unable to walk.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Rather than reject their advances, Max performs the middle-aged male mating call: jogging in a pair of grey sweatpants with no underwear.
—Claire Franken, TVLine, 3 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the middle-aged
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