oldness
Example Sentences
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“What was the relationship between personal fear of oldness and the ways in which oldness was structured in society?” she asks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Nostalgia became a default listening mode — and for me, the cumulative oldness felt distressingly new.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021
What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Rather than presenting a guide to very old German breweries ranked by oldness, I am awarding each brewery 0 to 10 points in each of three adjudicative categories: age, style, and flavor.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014
Mr. Ray pulled an extra chair up as I stared at all the oldness.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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