senior citizen

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Recent Examples of senior citizen Welch and Harmon should pass legislation to protect senior citizen homes from property tax sales. Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 Related Articles Civilians can’t deck out their vehicles with exterior blue lights — those are for cops A senior citizen Real ID is free Wildlife crossings over freeways are rare — but there are other ways to let animals roam Selling a car with disabled-person license plates — how does that work? Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 16 May 2025 From senior citizens to children, nobody was safe from the federal enforcement effort. Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2025 The question comes up time to time, especially after crashes involving teens and senior citizens. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 13 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for senior citizen
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senior citizen
Noun
  • Leech Lake officials asked people to check on their neighbors — in particular elders and people with health conditions.
    Andrew Krueger, Twin Cities, 23 June 2025
  • The Cost of Delay: Why Timing Matters Every month of delay in implementing comprehensive elder and disability planning increases both financial risk and family stress.
    Matthew F. Erskine, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The deer still have to be checked, and each hunter's first adult deer that is harvested has to be donated to Arkansas Hunters Feed the Hungry, Meeker said.
    Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2025
  • The force of the crash sent the car’s engine into its front seat, killing all three adult occupants: Mansfield, Brody and Harrison (as well as Mansfield’s chihuahua), according to The New York Times.
    Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Whereas modern extermination tends to involve poisons or traps that a professional later clears, ancients had to take on pests one by one.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Read More: These 5 Ancient Civilizations Treasured Their Pets Coping with Critters The discovery of archeological remains has helped scientists better understand how ancients coped with bothersome critters.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2025

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“Senior citizen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senior%20citizen. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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