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as our generation approaches middle age
The patient was in late middle age.
He feared the approach of middle age.
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Leaving office in middle age, Mr. Carter had another lifetime to rebuild public respect, a process enhanced by his extensive humanitarian work and freelance diplomacy, which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
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Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Except maybe for 1992’s South of the Border, West of the Sun, no previous Murakami novel has so clearly dealt with and inhabited the muddle of middle age.
—Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
This change is one reason weight gain becomes more common in middle age.
—Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 25 Dec. 2024
Benedict: Benedict has been in regular rotation ever since St. Benedict founded the Benedictine order of monks in the early middle ages.
—Anna Moeslein, Parents, 26 Oct. 2024
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Peter Baker, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Except maybe for 1992’s South of the Border, West of the Sun, no previous Murakami novel has so clearly dealt with and inhabited the muddle of middle age.
—Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
This change is one reason weight gain becomes more common in middle age.
—Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 25 Dec. 2024
Benedict: Benedict has been in regular rotation ever since St. Benedict founded the Benedictine order of monks in the early middle ages.
—Anna Moeslein, Parents, 26 Oct. 2024
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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middle age
noun
mid·dle age
ˌmid-ᵊl-ˈāj 
: the period of life from about 45 to about 64 years of age
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