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There were a lot of stories, old photos, laughter and love being passed around from people who haven’t touched the campus in four decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
They were first-timers and long-timers, old and young, and even non-believers like Dolores Mejia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The uncertainty also affects their children - four-year-old Xavier and two-month old Etta.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Yet in their rush to destroy the old guard, Weiss and Ellison have overlooked the fact that they left behind an elite corps of unemployed, highly motivated investigative journalists with nothing left to lose.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
In the morning, he wakes up feeling like his old self and insists that he has to get back to work.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Malick Thiaw was among the elder statesmen as he led Newcastle out as captain on his 25th birthday and this side will certainly need youthful vigour to play Jaissle's intense brand of football.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The club have mainly targeted players aged 20 and under from abroad, having already recruited Jaouen, Sean Steur, Bazoumana Toure and Aladji Bamba, so Hornicek will feel like something of an elder statesman in comparison.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Deputies located the trailer around 1 p.m. and began negotiating with the elder Hendrickson for their release around 4 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
When Mao Zedong visited Moscow in 1950 to forge the Sino-Soviet alliance, Soviet propaganda posters depicted Stalin as slightly taller than Mao—a carefully calibrated signal of who was the elder brother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Beowulf’s elder brother, Alexander, had spent the last hour pretending that the wind-filled curtains were sails on a ship.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
Reading through my childhood letters this summer while cleaning out my files, I came upon a birthday card that the four of us older siblings had written, apparently to Grandfather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Meta argues it can’t keep very young kids off its apps, and that there’s equal evidence showing its products are good for older adolescents as to suggest they might be harmful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Cheri Sanih, 30, runs a Tumblr account about older technology which she says has gained thousands of followers recently.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Target-date funds are investments linked to a specific year, and they adjust from riskier to more conservative as an investor gets older.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
He had a messy thatch of brown hair and an Adam’s apple sharp as a teenager’s, but he was at least ten years older than me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Her two eldest children fit their uniforms from the last school year but her youngest needed new uniform with school logos.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
In his place, his eldest son Flavio is running for the presidency in October elections.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Some communities have strong cultural traditions dictating who should fill the caretaker role — in many cases, that’s the eldest daughter.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Three years before Kent’s parents, Sherry and Alan, bought their eldest boy the Toyota truck, they saw his work ethic and drive in 1982 while Jeff tried to earn money for his Walkman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Each day Ackelow would send his eldest son up to the children’s room to call them for their meals.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The average age of the squad has been dramatically lowered and 28-year-old forward Harvey Barnes was Newcastle's oldest starter against Valencia.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
He is chairman of O’Leary Ventures, holds investments in more than 30 private companies, and is a member of the Hamilton Trust, the oldest investment club in the United States.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Even so, they include the oldest known animals capable of moving to find food or reproducing sexually.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Born on Feb. 3, 1941, in Hammond, Ind., Funk was the oldest of Dory and Dorothy Funk’s two sons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Well, that may very well be, but Seven wasn’t ready to give up on her oldest, dearest dream just yet.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
