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Recent Examples of dotardBut Biden did accomplish one thing, at least: Russia's pro-Kremlin media no longer views him as a dotard.—Peter Weber, The Week, 17 June 2021 Zuckerberg continues to allow, for example, videos and photographs falsified by the Trump campaign to depict Joe Biden as a dotard.—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020 Madman, rogue, gangster, frightened barking dog, dotard, rocket man, little rocket man -- the criticism of course by the American media was relentless.—Fox News, 10 Mar. 2018 Donald Trump, a man who at various points in his presidency has resembled a toddler, a dotard and a weird combination of both, mostly colored within the lines today in Davos, Switzerland.—Anne Branigin, The Root, 26 Jan. 2018 All the fighters at work achieve the everyday goal by over 200% with hearts to kill dotard Trump by cutting and tearing apart his body and cutting his head off!—Will Ripley and Tim Schwarz, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017 Stay above the snakeline, and don’t call anyone a dotard because Kim’s lawyers are on speed-dial and those stubby fingers can really move, folks.—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017 Gary Chryst, the most admired artist of the Joffrey Ballet of yore appearing with Ballet Theater as a guest, makes Dodon a rivetingly doting dotard.—Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 7 June 2016
But Italian brainrot’s invisible massiveness, totally foreign to oldsters but beloved by children across continents and languages, is a compelling and chilling showcase of our frazzled internet culture landscape.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
10 Sep. 2025
Uncle Herschel, the seated oldster in Cracker Barrel’s iconic logo, is not only a character from corporate lore, the founder’s real-life uncle, but a representative, even an aspirational, figure for a certain kind of American.
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Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
What had long been the province of geriatrics quickly morphed into something performative and hyper-masculine, with podcasters hyping testosterone injections, influencers displaying stacks of supplements, and billionaires interested in blood plasma exchanges as a way to live longer.
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Anne Marie Chaker,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
With Spinal Tap, the joke never gets old, even if the hilarious-as-ever heavy metal trio is now bordering on geriatric.
Sitting alone among these ancients can be a profound experience.
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Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
Read More: These 5 Ancient Civilizations Treasured Their Pets
Coping with Critters
The discovery of archeological remains has helped scientists better understand how ancients coped with bothersome critters.
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
The show’s underpinned by the differences in character and country of Lady Cora and her formidable mother-in-law, the dowager Countess Violet Crawley, played by the equally formidable and much missed Dame Maggie Smith.
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Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.
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Stephanie Balkwill,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
Cheryl, a 66-year-old motocross enthusiast, also took aim at Mel's senior citizen status.
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Kristen Baldwin,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
This extra information could have saved the lives of tourists who overestimate their hiking resilience, unhoused people unsure of their options to cool down and senior citizens who wait too long to ask for help — all causes of heat deaths every summer in Arizona.
Seek wisdom from mentors, elders, or even the younger version of yourself who still believed in magic.
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Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 Oct. 2025
When personalities from within the game — sports directors, coaches, journalists, esteemed elders — appear on programming adjacent to the Bundesliga or the national team (Sport1’s Doppelpass, for instance), strong opinions and disagreements are par for the course.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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