as in senility
the state or period of mental decline that typically accompanies old age
he's now in that stage of his dotage where he has trouble remembering the simplest things
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Recent Examples of dotage
The heroes of the team are now in their dotage so the time to strike again is here and now.
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Trump recalled Esposito having a baseball bat under his desk and, in his dotage, swinging a cane at uncooperative elements.
—John Ganz, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
Butler remains a talented, if mercurial, two-way star, even in his relative dotage at age 35 with 14 years of mileage — including two runs to the Finals with Miami — under his belt.
—Alex Kirschenbaum, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
In their dotage, a lot of these hacks were writing silly columns for crappy neighborhood newspapers.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
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Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Trump recalled Esposito having a baseball bat under his desk and, in his dotage, swinging a cane at uncooperative elements.
—John Ganz, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
Butler remains a talented, if mercurial, two-way star, even in his relative dotage at age 35 with 14 years of mileage — including two runs to the Finals with Miami — under his belt.
—Alex Kirschenbaum, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
In their dotage, a lot of these hacks were writing silly columns for crappy neighborhood newspapers.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Dotage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dotage. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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