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geriatric

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noun

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Recent Examples of geriatric
Adjective
Ruth, a 43-year-old geriatric elephant at the Milwaukee County Zoo, was euthanized after a second fall. Jim Riccioli, jsonline.com, 21 Sep. 2025 Other services include dental care, internal medicine, geriatric care and cold laser therapy. Jessica Peralta, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
It also was listed in the top 50 in cancer, cardiology and vascular surgery, diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, geriatrics, urology, and neurology and neurosurgery. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025 Rush specialities ranking among the top 10 in the country include geriatrics and neurology and neurosurgery. Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for geriatric
Recent Examples of Synonyms for geriatric
Adjective
  • Longer term plans include designing Robin to help elderly patients change their clothes and go to the bathroom.
    HALLIE GOLDEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2025
  • One man in the crowd can be seen laughing, another man holds his head in his hands, while a despondent elderly couple gets up and leaves.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The monastery is central to the story, and its elder—named Zosima in the novel—comforts a woman who has lost her child, aged two years and nine months, with words that echo those uttered by Ambrose.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Their flowers, red, rose above the courtyard and the divan where the village elders met, over the ten balconies and the stairway windows.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The adult passenger in the vehicle was also arrested and charged with obstructing a police officer, and three separate warrants, according to the release.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • More than a third of SNAP households in Michigan have older adults while nearly half include children.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The ReviveRX Cream is an anti-aging treatment that combines 10% azelaic acid, 4% niacinamide, and tretinoin (strengths vary, depending on prescribed treatment).
    Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2025
  • While anti-aging focuses on achieving a younger appearance, skin longevity emphasizes that prioritizing healthy skin does more than just give you an outward glow.
    Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The residency blues In politics, fighting over where candidates live is a tale as old as time.
    Hayleigh Colombo, IndyStar, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Lutnick handed the reins of the company to his 27-year-old son, and his other son also works at Cantor.
    Melanie Hicken, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Geriatric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/geriatric. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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