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Adjective
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He was charged him with two counts of battery, four counts of criminal mischief and abusing an elderly or disabled adult; Allen lost his left arm after a 1984 car accident.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
22 Apr. 2025 -
That’s what happened after two firefighters died in California in 2020 while searching for an elderly woman in a burning library.—
Mark Olalde,
ProPublica,
21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In her senior year, Catina who'd been accepted to the University of the Pacific, wanted to break up with Steve.—
Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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Mulkey benched Reese for a handful of games at the start of her senior year.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2025
Adjective
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Tilly, at 16, was considered geriatric for her species.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
2 May 2025
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More seniors means greater demand for specialized services, from geriatric care to chronic disease management.—
Carlo Scissura,
New York Daily News,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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QAnon was for senescent boomers; fashwave and Embrace Masculinity clips are millennial-coded.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
30 Apr. 2025
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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 7 May. 2025.
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