elder
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Your cousin’s request for help with a car repair doesn’t have to rise to the level of elder financial abuse to feel exploitative or, for that matter, to actually be exploitative.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
Most did not reply, but one "elder" responded saying he could not understand why Jacob was so angry and fixated on the policy shift.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
The song is a nostalgia hit for the elder millennials in the room, and it crystallizes this moment in time in the early 2000s, girls on the cusp of adulthood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
The elder Murakami regularly wrote poems during his time as a soldier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Bliksem must be an elder relative, Nhamo decided.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
That the elders thought the exact same way?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
“I don’t want to be one of the elders on some panel talking about what I would have, could have, should have done,” Newsom said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Prefunding pensions requires decades of steady capital accumulation and can force one generation to pay twice—for their elders and for their own pensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Duwai approached village elders with a proposal to protect part of their fishing grounds, originally a 30-by-40-metre area within the reef.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
The adults walked staidly among them, as elders should, and now and then pulled a tail to maintain order.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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