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Recent Examples of oldster While Rivers was plotting and plodding his way to victory Sunday, another oldster threw five touchdown passes with his new team. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Oct. 2020 The radical difference between the median and the mean means that there are some very, very rich oldsters out there, but Bill Gates and Bruce Springsteen are eligible for Social Security and Medicare simply by virtue of their age. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020 Hipsters in groups, oldsters in couples, crowds of post-church patrons on Sundays and, almost always, families with very cheerful children. Beth Segal, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2020 The old folks had Yoda as their feisty oldster and the kids now have Maz. 28. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019 See All Example Sentences for oldster
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Noun
  • Since her freshman year, Elizabeth has been visiting a local hospice—playing piano for elders, going on walks with them, and learning about their lives.
    Joshua Bennett, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
  • These companies have even been caught intentionally selling scammers data belonging to elders (who, unsurprisingly, later fell victim to elder fraud).
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, for some children, these behaviors may be an early sign of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a condition often thought to affect only older children or adults.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025
  • And among older adults, the need is especially growing.
    Felice J. Freyer, NPR, 16 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
  • Rush specialities ranking among the top 10 in the country include geriatrics and neurology and neurosurgery.
    Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2025
  • Doctors at the Center for Geriatric Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic have found social prescribing especially valuable for seniors, says Dr. Ardeshir Hashmi, chief of geriatrics.
    Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 14 July 2025

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“Oldster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oldster. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.

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