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
The elder Murakami regularly wrote poems during his time as a soldier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The elder Bolsonaro also traveled to Florida on the eve of Lula’s inauguration in December 2022 after losing the election.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
According to NPR, the elder Evans showed up for jury selection under the name “Hanson,” introducing himself to reporters as a concerned citizen who fixed up old cars for a living.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
But because Old Tallow was, after all, an elder, and because Mama had always insisted that Omakayas be polite as possible to her elders, Omakayas pretended to listen to the story.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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“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
From the advent of social media to the rise of artificial intelligence, young people face conditions their elders struggle to understand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 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
Debora Jr., 27, told me it was pretty cool to be playing with a member of the Doors, a band he knew about through his elders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
No elders to bake cookies with during the holidays, like Serenity.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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