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Recent Examples of septuagenarian
The actress revels in every episode as a septuagenarian lawyer returning to the workforce at a high-profile New York firm with a Southern accent and a baby boomer sensibility.
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The film is an adaptation of a Daniel Pinkwater novel and tells the story of a septuagenarian whose best friend is a 70-year-old chicken.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
What about a septuagenarian — and former James Bond — like Pierce Brosnan?
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Kathy Bates stars as a septuagenarian lawyer, and even in its first episode, the series turned the premise on its head, meaning viewers didn’t really know what to expect.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
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Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
The film is an adaptation of a Daniel Pinkwater novel and tells the story of a septuagenarian whose best friend is a 70-year-old chicken.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
What about a septuagenarian — and former James Bond — like Pierce Brosnan?
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Kathy Bates stars as a septuagenarian lawyer, and even in its first episode, the series turned the premise on its head, meaning viewers didn’t really know what to expect.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for septuagenarian
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Set during the Great Depression, a Milwaukee detective’s quest to find a Wisconsin cheese heiress lands him in Hungary and on a collision course with history to meet Nazis, spies, and swing musicians in the octogenarian literary giant’s first novel in over a decade.—
Tomi Obaro,
Vulture,
9 Sep. 2025
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Fourteen other kids and three octogenarian parishioners were wounded but expected to survive, the chief said.—
MARK VANCLEAVE,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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The lady is a nonagenarian killer.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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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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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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Yet that same 30-year period saw a flurry of research and activity to try to reduce geriatric falls and their potentially devastating consequences, from hip fractures and brain bleeds to restricted mobility, persistent pain, and institutionalization.—
Paula Span,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Even before she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (2002), the 95-year-old actor had been a go-to Everygrandma, doling out enough geriatric sass to make the Golden Girls bow down yet doing so in the most polite, Midwestern way imaginable.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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The rest of the world should learn from Europe’s failures, and not burden its relatively younger and poorer citizens with funding benefits for its relatively wealthy and retired elderly ones.—
Renaud Foucart,
Time,
28 Sep. 2025
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Noguera was assigned to assist elderly prisoners as part of a prison program for inmates with disabilities.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The club now hosts the Ally Challenge, a senior event on the PGA Champions Tour.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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History is everywhere, from its frescoed ceilings and antique furniture to the centenarian trees outside, meticulously catalogued and protected by the city of Florence.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Observers watched in amazement as the aircraft performed a roll, with the centenarian veteran and his pilot briefly flying upside down, waving from high in the sky.—
Eric Noll,
ABC News,
12 Aug. 2025
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Studios already use it for de-aging effects and digital doubles.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Packed with anti-aging ingredients, actives, and ceramides, they’re built to target issues and deliver serious results.—
Essence,
Essence,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Septuagenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/septuagenarian. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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