as in elderly
being of advanced years and especially past middle age
an older woman was the chief librarian for the town
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Adjective
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The rest of the world should learn from Europe’s failures, and not burden its relatively younger and poorer citizens with funding benefits for its relatively wealthy and retired elderly ones.—
Renaud Foucart,
Time,
28 Sep. 2025 -
Noguera was assigned to assist elderly prisoners as part of a prison program for inmates with disabilities.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested and charged with capital murder.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
26 Sep. 2025
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That Tamra and Gretchen are both doing the same thing, trafficking in old rumors and nastiness not about the husband, as Meredith Marks would say, but about each other.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There’s that anti-aging guy, Bryan Johnson, whom Chris Smith also made a film about.—
Joe Lynch,
Billboard,
25 Sep. 2025
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The boy’s death put a spotlight on the largely unregulated use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the wellness industry, which has promoted the use of the chambers for anti-aging, mental health and other benefits.—
Elizabeth Chuck,
NBC news,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Set in Glasgow, the film follows middle-aged comedian and recovering alcoholic Ben and his estranged daughter Lucy, a troubled art student, who is falling into the same patterns of addiction.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Sep. 2025
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The kids—boys, aged ten and thirteen—requested Shirley Temples.—
Ben McGrath,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Older.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/older. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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