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as in older
being of advanced years and especially past middle age
all the young men went to fight in the war; and only the aged and infirm remained behind
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as in venerable
dating or surviving from the distant past
a forest of aged and gnarled oaks
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as in maturity
the state of being an old person
the advanced agedness of the patient was immediately obvious to the emergency room staff
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as in antiquity
the state of being something old
the sheer ancientness of the Middle East impresses many first-time visitors
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as in progressed
to become mature
as your cat ages and becomes less active, you should change her diet
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Recent Examples of aged
Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2025
So spare a thought for Prince Archie, aged five, and Princess Lilibet, three.
—Claire Cohen, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, Medicaid is the largest program providing medical and health-related services to low-income individuals, and Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people aged 65 or older, and for some younger individuals with certain disabilities or conditions.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Early Friday morning, ICE deported three U.S. citizens — aged 2, 4, and 7 — when their mothers were deported to Honduras.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2025
So spare a thought for Prince Archie, aged five, and Princess Lilibet, three.
—Claire Cohen, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025
Verb
At check-in, little explorers aged four to 12 receive a sketchbook filled with missions to complete during their stay.
—Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 11 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, Medicaid is the largest program providing medical and health-related services to low-income individuals, and Medicare is a federal health insurance program for people aged 65 or older, and for some younger individuals with certain disabilities or conditions.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
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The venerable system of health clinics, based in South Los Angeles, on Thursday joined about 10 other nonprofits in launching a media campaign that will focus on half a dozen U.S. House districts where Republican lawmakers have supported the president’s initial budget plan.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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The process includes several stages: servant of God, venerable, blessed (through beatification), and finally, saint (through canonization).—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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These ETFs generate income from buying U.S. treasuries and paying out the interest across a wide range of maturity schedules, from ultra-short bonds to as far out as 30 years, and return capital to investors from the bond ladder as individual bonds mature.—
Meredith Mutter,
CNBC,
9 May 2025
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The soul-stirring project is a story of acceptance, understanding, emotional maturity, and forward progression.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
9 May 2025
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The Panorama, mounted temporarily while the Pergamon Museum undergoes renovation, is an enormous installation depicting life in 129 A.D. Altes Museum contains numerous objects from classical antiquity.—
Valeriya Safronova,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Locating them involves detective work and has attracted eccentric explorers since interest in antiquity was revived in the Renaissance.—
Tony Perrottet,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Mar. 2025
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Allen — who has steadily received more playing time as the season has progressed based on his defense but has also shown flashes offensively and has displayed solid free-throw shooting — played the best of the bunch, scoring nine points in 22 minutes of play and grabbing five rebounds.—
Grant Salsman,
Kansas City Star,
5 Jan. 2025
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Supermodel Heidi Klum, who progressed into a mainstay judge of American’s Got Talent on NBC, is returning to her roots in the reality/competition space.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Authorities were working to identify some of the victims, most of whom were elderly women.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2025
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An elderly man was mowed down and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Brooklyn on May 10 — just seconds after the same driver smashed into a nearby vehicle, cops said Wednesday.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2025
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Drive around the island and catch glimpses of past civilizations: ancient fig trees propped up by wooden crutches; centuries-old windmills that look like giant antique flyswatters; stone walls built by the Moors during the Middle Ages that somehow still look new.—
Julia Chaplin,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2025
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The photo highlights the relative youth of human civilization by showing a 2,500-year-old temple that is ancient by the yardstick of human lives, alongside the 4.5 billion-year-old disk of Earth's moon, which has watched over humanity since our ancestors emerged from the oceans.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
13 May 2025
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Like the Kearns have done, families could split into different rooms, as well, depending on the age of their children.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
12 May 2025
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However, their two daughters, both under the age of 3, who Gilbert chose not to name, had been left in the dark about what their dad had planned.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 May 2025
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As the allegations surfaced and then grew, Manson was dropped by CAA as a client and axed from acting roles in American Gods and Creepshow.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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The number of job listings for musical therapists in Australia, for example, grew nearly fourfold in the five years between 2018 and 2022.—
Aliza Knox,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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“Aged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aged. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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