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Recent Examples of nonagenarian
That summer saw the Rio Olympics and a particularly spectacular Trooping the Colour as the nation gathered to toast to Her Majesty's nonagenarian milestone.
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Stephanie Bridger-Linning,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
The most important person in this book is Chang's nonagenarian mother, to whom the book is dedicated and whom Chang has been unable to visit in China since 2018.
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Emily Feng,
NPR,
13 Jan. 2026
In some ways, the Beckmen was a full-circle moment for the nonagenarian, a return to his roots as a designer who could find in the mundane an element of the extraordinary.
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Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2025
After reading about the nonagenarian’s record-breaking races, Simone Porcelli, an Italian professor of human physiology at the University of Pavia (located almost 19 miles south of Milan), contacted Mazzenga to be part of a study called the TRAJECTORAGE Project.
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Antonia Mortensen,
CNN Money,
27 Nov. 2025
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Stephanie Bridger-Linning,
Vanity Fair,
20 Jan. 2026
The most important person in this book is Chang's nonagenarian mother, to whom the book is dedicated and whom Chang has been unable to visit in China since 2018.
—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
13 Jan. 2026
In some ways, the Beckmen was a full-circle moment for the nonagenarian, a return to his roots as a designer who could find in the mundane an element of the extraordinary.
—
Carolina A. Miranda,
The Atlantic,
8 Dec. 2025
After reading about the nonagenarian’s record-breaking races, Simone Porcelli, an Italian professor of human physiology at the University of Pavia (located almost 19 miles south of Milan), contacted Mazzenga to be part of a study called the TRAJECTORAGE Project.
—
Antonia Mortensen,
CNN Money,
27 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonagenarian
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An octogenarian plumber restored fixtures that dated back to his own childhood.
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Stewart is one of several octogenarian (or near) rockers who continue to perform publicly, a list that includes James Taylor, Paul McCartney (who was here at the Fonda back in the spring), Cher and Kenny Loggins to name a few.
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Shudder’s French septuagenarian spy pic Reflection in a Dead Diamond then took home the Gotham for Outstanding Original Film, Broadcast or Streaming.
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Bookended by voiceover narration drawn straight from Ernaux’s novel, delivered by a septuagenarian version of the writer performed by Valérie Dréville, the film primarily tells the story of Annie at 17 (Barthélemy) in the summer of 1958.
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Authorities are notably worried about people living in the baking streets, and elderly people in nursing homes or isolated in their homes.
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Authorities are notably worried about people living in the streets and elderly people in nursing homes or isolated in their homes.
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The cumulative effects of chronic stress, exposure to the elements, untreated medical conditions, poor nutrition and limited access to healthcare can lead to the early onset of geriatric conditions such as cognitive impairment, mobility limitations and frailty.
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As with the child, so with the geriatric adult.
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Lally has been named as one of 48 centenarian ambassadors still alive today who were born in Ireland between 1920 and 1926 and whose names appear on the official census records that were released by the Irish National Archives in April.
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Healthy habits, like those in the centenarian survey, can bolster longevity by reducing the forces that age us, such as chronic inflammation, blood vessel damage, mitochondrial decline, muscle loss, and stress, Weiss said.
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Jung, who is going into his senior year of high school, said SmartBlink can detect pedestrians using wheelchairs, crutches or canes, too.
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The State Department has already mobilized a disaster assistance team and task force to deliver and coordinate critical assistance to Venezuelans, including search and rescue teams, medical supplies, and humanitarian resources, according to senior State Department official Jeremy Lewin.
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Its contents range from 19th-century anti-aging pills, to biologist Charles Darwin’s walking stick, to striking nude self-portraits by then-sexagenarian British photographer John Coplans.
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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.
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“Nonagenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonagenarian. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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