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To do so is to put yourself in Hicks’s shoes in the 1950s, when the now-nonagenarian was exploring the textile traditions of the Andes for her undergraduate thesis at Yale.
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Catherine Hong, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2025
Counting Barack and Michelle Obama among its exec producers, Proudfoot’s film follows Chris Hesse, a nonagenarian photographer who snapped African revolutionary leader Kwame Nkrumah.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
The lady is a nonagenarian killer.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Born in 1934, the nonagenarian Kurt Klaus is one of the most important watchmakers from the golden age of 20th-century mechanical horology.
—Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2025
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Catherine Hong, Architectural Digest, 28 Oct. 2025
Counting Barack and Michelle Obama among its exec producers, Proudfoot’s film follows Chris Hesse, a nonagenarian photographer who snapped African revolutionary leader Kwame Nkrumah.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2025
The lady is a nonagenarian killer.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
Born in 1934, the nonagenarian Kurt Klaus is one of the most important watchmakers from the golden age of 20th-century mechanical horology.
—Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonagenarian
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In the process, one robber violently shoved the store’s octogenarian owner to the ground, police said, leaving him bloodied and lacerated from numerous shards of glass.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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Just three octogenarian nuns sitting in quiet prayer.—
Esme Nicholson,
NPR,
18 Dec. 2025
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On streaming, Netflix is serving a diverse array of content from the second season of a septuagenarian's mystery-solving antics to a look back at the crime that tragically took the life of an iconic singer.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
21 Nov. 2025
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As president of the United States, he was stabbed in the heart with a letter opener by a septuagenarian cuckold.—
Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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He was found guilty in 2025 of treating an elderly women suffering from liver disease without a medical license.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Rantz cited a recent attack on an elderly woman who was struck in the face with a board containing a nail, leaving her blind.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
12 Jan. 2026
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Iwuagwu worked as a professor in the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Medicine, and as a UToledo Health geriatric medicine physician.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
27 Dec. 2025
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Reality is far more complicated, Ipsit Vahia, the chief of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General Brigham’s McLean Hospital and the director of its Technology and Aging Laboratory, told me.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
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The centenarian company, renowned for exporting American storytelling, has transformed into a media and experiential giant, capturing and reflecting the country’s traditions and ideals of optimism, ambition, and invention across the eras, and influencing popular culture globally.—
Charlotte Hu,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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For fundraisers, reaching centenarian donors requires sensitivity, patience and respect.—
Norman B. Gildin,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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Talla Mountjoy is senior director of programs for the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of Chicago.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Jan. 2026
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Last month before the Alamo Bowl, starting quarterback Jayden Maiava announced his intention to stay at USC for his redshirt senior season after leading the Big Ten with 3,711 passing yards.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
15 Jan. 2026
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Who knew if these roles were flukes — one-offs, novelties — or if Jerry Adler would defy the odds stacked up against any actor, much less a sexagenarian new to the game, and continue to find work in his newfound profession.—
Howard Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Nonagenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonagenarian. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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