the middle-aged

noun

: middle-aged people : people between the age of about 40 and the age of about 60

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Seventy years ago the middle-aged were in a twist about Elvis Presley swinging his hips on television. —Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024

The series follows the middle-aged scion to the Tout-Paris, a Cancan hotspot akin to the Moulin Rouge. —Ben Croll, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024

But most audiences would recognize his face from something, and over the past 30 years he’s built up an apex career for a character actor: the middle-aged crank who can headline a film but just as easily fill in as one of Dwayne Johnson’s action-movie sidekicks (in fact, he’s done that twice). —David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024

Take Tatiana, the middle-aged manager of a supermarket chain. —Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023

The fight sequences with Mr. Freeze, that’s very much for the middle-aged generation of Batman fans, and then a bunch of stuff in there for the kids as well. —Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2023

Lucia could offer a considerable step-up from the three distinctly unlikable protagonists of Grand Theft Auto 5: the psychotic hick Trevor, the middle-aged cynic Michael, and the quietly monstrous Franklin. —Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023

And the January 2023 suspect—the middle-aged guy in a gray beanie who sprayed the couple with the Chihuahua on Magnolia? —Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023

Jack has two long-time buddies, both of whom are experiencing their own version of the middle-aged daddy blues. —Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023