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elderly

adjective as in in old age

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Family members and people who knew the elderly chapel-going siblings have never accepted that explanation, and believe they were both murdered.

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She said the criminals had "acted in a completely selfish and manipulative manner to make huge sums for themselves" while exploiting elderly timeshare owners.

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Footage has shown militia members—men and women; often elderly, slightly plump Venezuelans—running obstacle courses, crawling under barbed wire and firing rifles.

Clinging to one another and to life itself as floodwaters engulfed their house last week, an elderly Mexican couple became a symbol of hope as video of their desperate struggle for survival went viral.

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Playing himself, the filmmaker drives a cab around Tehran engaging with a variety of passengers: a bootleg DVD seller, an injured man and his distraught wife, two elderly women in a rush.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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