centenarian

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for centenarian
Adjective
  • Authorities were working to identify some of the victims, most of whom were elderly women.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2025
  • Owners vow new appeal in case of CT dog that killed an elderly woman Six-year court battle over the dog that killed an elderly woman is on track to continue even as total expenses run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    Diana Urban, Hartford Courant, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The senior first baseman finally connected on his first homer of the season Thursday against Lake Park.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • That said, anti-Tesla sentiment has been growing due to CEO Elon Musk's involvement with the Trump administration as senior advisor to the president.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Over the 10 years of data the study analyzed, nearly 64% of small and rural counties had no geriatric physicians or nurse practitioners.
    Meg Cunningham, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025
  • Tilly, at 16, was considered geriatric for her species.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • QAnon was for senescent boomers; fashwave and Embrace Masculinity clips are millennial-coded.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
  • If the cells were truly senescent, then the medications should both reduce the number of senescent cells and reverse many of the structural DNA changes and gene expression disruptions.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
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“Centenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/centenarian. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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