anile

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for anile
Adjective
  • Back on the domestic front, Jeanine has reason to believe that her husband, Paul (Mark O’Brien), is having an affair with her senile mother’s caregiver.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Don Quixote himself is too often a senile dodderer; Daniel Rubin was creaky in body but youthfully quixotic in spirit.
    Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
Adjective
  • Theresa May and her spavined colleagues would be responsible for that distrust, but life is unfair and Boris would carry the can.
    John O'Sullivan, National Review, 9 July 2019
  • The series took a chunk out of both the recklessness of the Texas state government and out of the spavined state of the EPA and OSHA even under President Obama, the latter problems having gotten worse under the current administration.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 31 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • Yet that same 30-year period saw a flurry of research and activity to try to reduce geriatric falls and their potentially devastating consequences, from hip fractures and brain bleeds to restricted mobility, persistent pain, and institutionalization.
    Paula Span, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Even before she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (2002), the 95-year-old actor had been a go-to Everygrandma, doling out enough geriatric sass to make the Golden Girls bow down yet doing so in the most polite, Midwestern way imaginable.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The show provided a side of the singer few had seen — a bit doddering, sometimes befuddled and the source of the series’ comedy.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The trio find work at the Planet Express Delivery Company, founded by Fry’s doddering descendant, Professor Hubert Farnsworth.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • One has multiple young children and an elderly dog who had already gotten into physical fights with Oli.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • On the eve of sentencing, Combs submitted a personal letter to the judge asking for leniency, referencing his seven children and elderly mother.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Zombie cells are senescent cells, which are cells that are technically alive but in growth arrest due to a variety of stressors, including oxidative stress and DNA damage.
    Celia Shatzman, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But having too few senescent cells is dangerous, because senescence helps block tumors.
    Tad Friend, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The former property manager had briefly tried to move Daniels into a less decrepit unit – but did not follow through with tenants on recurring issues.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But Cuba’s decrepit regime is too afraid to seriously open up its economy, fearing that greater economic freedom will lead to escalating demands for political freedoms.
    Andres Oppenheimer September 17, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Who knew if these roles were flukes — one-offs, novelties — or if Jerry Adler would defy the odds stacked up against any actor, much less a sexagenarian new to the game, and continue to find work in his newfound profession.
    Howard Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Anile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anile. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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