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middle age

noun as in middle years

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That suggests that astronomers might not fully understand the timeline of middle age.

You don’t see outbreaks like the middle ages and that’s because of sanitation.

The condition is typically diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, but it can take until middle age before a person’s vision has deteriorated severely enough that they are fully or effectively blind.

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He insists that they shouldn’t have had to be monks to survive into middle age—and he directs righteous, well-deserved anger at the adults, in Britain and beyond, who raised their children to live in shame.

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The dogs’ interest in problem-solving tended to rise until middle age before leveling off.

George Cook, a middle-age black man from the Bronx, brought up the rear.

Hughes, a middle-age black man from Far Rockaway in Queens, has never been a part of any protests himself but supports them.

As Victoria was buying pots and tea cups Monday, she told the middle-age shop assistants she was purchasing them for the ATO.

And I can only see those aspects of his legacy deepening if he had lived into middle age and beyond.

I wanted to see if Jimmy in his middle age had it in him to fight cancer and how his sense of humor would help him in this fight.

D'Israeli loved the long pipe in his youth, but in middle age pronounced it 'the tomb of love.'

As she spoke, a handsome man of middle age and erect carriage entered the room.

Paul was short in stature, somewhat stooping and at the middle age his hair was thin, inclining to baldness.

It is filled throughout with legends relating to the Devil, and with superstitious beliefs of the Middle Age.

He was a man a little under middle age, of medium height and thick-set, with black hair and a pale, smooth-shaven face.

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

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