How to Use gerontocracy in a Sentence

gerontocracy

noun

• And Bloomberg is the same age as Biden, in keeping with the Democrats recent taste for gerontocracy.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 2 Feb. 2020
• But in their polemics, these men are aligning themselves with the gerontocracy against the young.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
• But by the second decade of this century, the gerontocracy was no longer sustainable.
  — Christopher Dickey, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
• Youth can’t help but be a contrast in an America that is run by a Boomer and Silent Generation gerontocracy.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 15 Feb. 2023
• Now that Americans can expect to live more than twice that long, the government has become a gerontocracy.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 21 Oct. 2021
• There are certain benefits to the fact that the LDS Church is an unapologetic gerontocracy.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• Salman, the current king and at 86 one of the youngest of Abdulaziz’s brood, saw the perils of unchecked gerontocracy and anointed a successor from the next generation.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
• The result is that, in a time of inarguable crisis, the grip of the gerontocracy remains strong in both of America’s political parties.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 July 2022
• That’s not to say Abbas and the rest of the Palestinian gerontocracy are any more capable of making peace than Israel’s right-wing government.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
• This omerta has begun to break, however, and one new point of contrast is the end of gerontocracy in Democratic House leadership.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• The president’s milestone birthday has brought new attention to the gerontocracy that has led both parties for years and raised questions about when a new generation will come forth.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• His predecessors had all died in quick succession, victims of the USSR’s gerontocracy.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
• But Congress’s gerontocracy problem shows no sign of abating.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2020
• The next government will be a veritable gerontocracy, with an 80-year-old speaker of the House and perhaps a 78-year-old Senate majority leader.
  — Jennifer Senior, Star Tribune, 13 Nov. 2020
• But far from being unusual, Feinstein is simply the marginally oldest member of a body arguably best described as a gerontocracy.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
• Unlike the Eastern Bloc gerontocracies of the zastoi era, there’s nothing ossified about its approach to politics.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023
• Putting ageism and ableism together yields the hand-wringing about gerontocracy among our political omphaloskeptics.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• But barring such an upsurge—which would not play to Trump’s demographic strengths--the gerontocracy must impose some internal discipline, and something like that appears now to be happening.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• And now television is turning into a virtual gerontocracy as well.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• The gerontocracy critique also threatens to deprive us of our most experienced leaders.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Having said all that, what the idea of Kerry running again really illustrates is the gerontocracy governing American politics at present.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 25 Jan. 2018
• Millennials, after all, are starting to gain political power at a time when America looks more like a gerontocracy than ever.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
• The 82-year-old congresswoman’s decision makes way for a new generation to lead the Democratic caucus, a sensitive issue for an aging party that some see as at risk of becoming a gerontocracy.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
• All but the most ideological conservatives are likely to follow Trump down this path toward white welfare gerontocracy.
  — Jamelle Bouie, Slate Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
• His political diatribes also include laments that the U.S. has become a gerontocracy where political leaders in their 80s refuse to cede power or ideas to a younger generation.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
• In a gerontocracy like Italy, proposals to encourage the elderly to stay inside would mean shutting away much of the political, academic, industrial, and business elite.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2020
• If Pelosi’s generation of post-sixties liberals long seemed to have a permanent grip on power—the gerontocracy—this is partly because our politics is in many ways still stuck in debates over those same liberation breakthroughs.
  — The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2022
• On the one hand, Mr. Renzi presented himself as an anti-establishment demolition man determined to smash the gerontocracy in Italy and shock into action the out-of-touch bureaucracy in Brussels.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2016
• Musk’s comments are in line with his previous critiques of gerontocracy—a state governed by older people—and America’s aging political leadership.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• Konstantin von Eggert, an independent political commentator, said the younger generation of loyalists wants to steer clear of the gerontocracy.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024