middle-aged

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle-aged
Adjective
  • Freida Moss Freida Moss, a retired court secretary, died March 5.
    J.M. Banks, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Agencies who want to hire city retirees have to obtain a waiver from the Civil Service Commission, and even then there are constraints on how much the retired employee can earn.
    Jan Ransom, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Why 'Shrinking' Is a Parents-Only Watch The themes, relationships, and conversations in this show are primarily adult in nature.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The next decades will witness, for the first time, the full impact of one-child families on adult Chinese society.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 1 Mar. 2012
Adjective
  • Most of us travelling correspondents were youngish reporters from oldish outlets, wearing blue button-downs and carrying notebooks in the back pockets of our Bonobos.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Almost all were sort of oldish homes; this wasn’t an area with huge three-plus million dollar house.
    Ali MacGraw, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Fixing something old — a battered toy, a superannuated radio, a rickety house — is an act of love and a gesture of faith.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 26 Sep. 2024
  • But remember this is a superannuated, octogenarian leader who has just endured years of popular unrest and rising conflict with Israel, and 24 hours ago saw a surprisingly moderate president, Masoud Pezeshkian, get sworn in.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 31 July 2024
Adjective
  • Charges have been filed against an Oklahoma woman who is being accused of laundering nearly $1.5 million in funds obtained through online romance scams, targeting elderly women.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • What To Know Between October 2024 and January 2025, at least five elderly victims in Pittsburgh were tricked into handing over large sums of cash.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • For anyone feeling lost, old, or generally confused as to what the hell’s going on, here’s a grown-up’s guide to all the references and moments in A Minecraft Movie that are driving fans wild.
    Issy van der Velde, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2025
  • In its first season, Andor was cinematic, grown-up, grounded, and urgent, running bold choices or ideas, like deftly examining how oppressive administrations exert their political power.
    Photo: Courtesy of Netflix., Refinery29, 1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Fast forward 20 minutes after the latest mature words uttered by the Wild’s wily ol’ vet.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • The workshop is part of SBCC’s mission to support community engagement for mature adults in Solana Beach, according to a news release.
    News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The geriatric birds can still see and hear their younger counterparts—the retirement island is cordoned off from the aquarium’s three other islands by a mesh gate in the water.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But the geriatric animals here get an extra dose of TLC.
    Brooke Holder, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Middle-aged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle-aged. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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