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Growing up around horses and with his father a jockey, the singer said he loved ponies and eventually started riding racehorses at 14 years old.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Also honored at Saturday’s ceremony was Mariska Hargitay for her documentary “My Mom Jayne,” about her mother Jayne Mansfield, a Hollywood actor who died in a car accident when Hargitay was 3 years old.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
By comparing those historical frogs with living populations from the Ecuadorian Chocó, the team found that the old specimens had been incorrectly linked to a different species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
The band was called Splay, named after “splay tree,” a computer science term for a type of data structure, according to the band’s surviving old website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But it’s too late now—the Uber pulls up to the old man’s house.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
But Markey’s victory also fits a different pattern: In all three of those earlier races, the elder lawmaker lost to a more outspokenly progressive rival.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
Among them was Subash Khatani, scanning lists and speaking to officials in the hope of finding news of his elder brother, one of the hundreds unaccounted for after the disaster.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
There will be pressure on the elder brother to take the lead, ease the pain and just make up with Harry now the siblings will be living in the same country.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
As the elder son, Jared was on track to enter the family business, which amassed thousands of New Jersey apartment units under Charlie’s leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The chief elder nodded, and the guards set the object down in front of me.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
While older brothers Lee and Peter were welcomed into the boxing fold, Katie became K from Bray - a girl hiding her identity to simply compete in an exclusively male environment.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
In a side room I glimpsed a religious-education class being led, with older participants seated before a lecturer who had scriptures projected on a screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons just released its 2025 data, and one number jumped off the page: Cosmetic surgical procedures grew 7% overall, but procedures among patients age 65 and older surged 24%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026
One of the older Air Force Ones then appeared to have been called into action when Israel briefed the US about a possible missile threat when Trump was leaving the Ankara summit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Each year the children had grown older, bolder, louder; but Clare had never thought they would trespass into his beloved Deadwood.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Wendell was the eldest of four children, two boys and two girls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Everything is intended to go to my eldest grandson, who is unable to manage his finances because of severe mental illness.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
Kula Priya, whose eldest son is missing, said she had lost everything when the deluge hit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The King and his eldest son are said to be in agreement that Prince Harry's return "changes nothing", the Daily Mirror reveals.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He put his eldest son, John, in charge of the Brookline office and left Harry Codman in Chicago to guide the work on the world’s fair.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Unretouched triangular microlithic projectile points have been identified from their impact traces in the oldest occupation layers of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan, dating to 80,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
My oldest, who is 14, ducks behind our raised garden beds, where orange marigolds and sprawling tomato branches shield her from his view.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
One of the city’s oldest parks, the downtown square between Olive and Hill streets was first dedicated in 1866 as La Plaza Abaja.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The financial-services firm is now run by his two oldest sons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
And yet, gradually, her ability to read and do math surpassed that of all but the oldest students.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
