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Basic infrastructure is shored up by an immigrant underclass, and the elderly are chained to barges that disappear beneath the sea.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The injury to the bone by the shoulder joint is often linked to either falls among the elderly, with osteoporosis a particular risk, or a high-speed trauma among the young.
—Michael L. Millenson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
The aging trend is having, or will have, two distinct impacts, one on the elderly population itself as its needs for housing, medical care and other services increase, and the other on the state as a whole as the number of working-age adults stagnates.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Forced by his teammate’s injury to take on a heavier load, the elderly Kelce still assisted K.C.’s run to an eighth consecutive AFC West title — double the Chargers’ best such streak — and the franchise’s fifth Super Bowl in six years.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The injury to the bone by the shoulder joint is often linked to either falls among the elderly, with osteoporosis a particular risk, or a high-speed trauma among the young.
—Michael L. Millenson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
The aging trend is having, or will have, two distinct impacts, one on the elderly population itself as its needs for housing, medical care and other services increase, and the other on the state as a whole as the number of working-age adults stagnates.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Forced by his teammate’s injury to take on a heavier load, the elderly Kelce still assisted K.C.’s run to an eighth consecutive AFC West title — double the Chargers’ best such streak — and the franchise’s fifth Super Bowl in six years.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
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“The elderly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20elderly. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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