graybeards

plural of graybeard

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for graybeards
Noun
  • Leo drew attention to a joint statement by the Latin and Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Jerusalem, who announced that the priests and nuns in the two Christian churches in Gaza City would stay put, despite Israeli evacuation orders ahead of the Gaza City offensive.
    Nicole Winfield, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The ladle in a kitchen drawer leads her to the Big Dipper and Joseph’s pit and the wells dug by the patriarchs in the book of Genesis.
    Ilana Kurshan, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Plus, lest oldsters forget, Buckingham Fountain is romantic.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Here are more Denver old-timers preserving the city’s culinary and cultural past while inching toward the future, in alphabetical order.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Inside, the multi-generational crowd united old-timers, who may well have been at some of the Dead’s first Golden Gate Park gigs decades ago with kids and young adults catching live Grateful Dead music for the first time.
    Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Your ability to move with or without ease comes down to muscle mass, range of motion, flexibility, and energy levels, according to Richard Dupee, MD, chief of geriatrics at Tufts Medical Center.
    Sydney Wingfield, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
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“Graybeards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graybeards. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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