chronological
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Say a test indicates that your chronological age is higher than your biological age—you’re a 60-year-old in a 50-year-old’s body.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Biological age, which does not always match a person's chronological age, can be estimated using "epigenetic clocks."
From Science Daily • May 4, 2026
The first task was to put them in chronological order, something made more difficult by the fact that some of the documents were undated.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
Instead of presenting an organized system of knowledge, whose stylistic or chronological categories suggested hierarchies, it would free visitors, a press release claims, “from prescribed paths to follow their own curiosity.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
I skip Grade Seven and go straight into Grade Eight, missing the Kings of England in chronological order, missing the circulatory system, leaving my boyfriend behind.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing chronological
It's About Time: Chron and Temp
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