old age

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noun

1
: the fact of being old
She died of old age.
2
: the time of life when a person is old
He's getting sweeter in his old age.

old-age

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adjective

: of, for, or relating to old people
an old-age home

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Noun
From cradle to old age, this man and the Republican agenda is devastating for women. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025 Death is rarely physically dignified, and visibly withering from old age in front of the entire world is perhaps one of the heaviest crosses a pope must bear. Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
President Trump vowed on the campaign trail not to touch the old-age and disability insurance program, which provides monthly payments to nearly 70 million people, or roughly 1 in 5 Americans. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025 What’s new is that as the population ages, mandatory spending on old-age insurance has soared. Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for old age

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“Old age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/old%20age. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.

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