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Adjective
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Family members of deceased workers made up 8.6 percent of the total, while family members of retired or disabled workers represented 5.5 percent.—
Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025 -
The San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System actuary reports that the average annual pension for a retired San Diego employee is about $56,500.—
Chris Brewster,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The next decades will witness, for the first time, the full impact of one-child families on adult Chinese society.—
Henry A. Kissinger,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Mar. 2012
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At first, the dynamic seems ambiguous: closer to that between a mom and her barely adult son than a wife and her husband.—
Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
15 Nov. 2023
Adjective
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Almost all were sort of oldish homes; this wasn’t an area with huge three-plus million dollar house.—
Ali MacGraw,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Jan. 2025
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There aren’t just new movies and shows, but an array of old (and oldish) classics.—
Don Steinberg and Chris Kornelis,
WSJ,
1 Apr. 2020
Adjective
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Fixing something old — a battered toy, a superannuated radio, a rickety house — is an act of love and a gesture of faith.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
26 Sep. 2024
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But remember this is a superannuated, octogenarian leader who has just endured years of popular unrest and rising conflict with Israel, and 24 hours ago saw a surprisingly moderate president, Masoud Pezeshkian, get sworn in.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
31 July 2024
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John also told us his elderly neighbors were without service.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
10 Feb. 2025
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The program has since grown to include nearly 3,000 elderly listeners attending to more than 200,000 people all over Zimbabwe, and is now expanding to vulnerable communities in nine countries, including the United States.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Speaking of mothers: Mary Brown (Mortimer) has been pining for the good old days when her now-teenaged children, Judy (Madeleine Harris ) and Jonathan (Samuel Joslin), weren’t so grown-up.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
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The trending assortment of fruity scents are way more complex and grown-up, with far higher concentrations of perfume oil — and therefore longevity.—
Venus Wong,
refinery29.com,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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During this entire period, the Palestinians failed to prepare for statehood in any mature way.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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In fact, fire is essential to the germination of its seeds so that if their viability expires and then a fire comes along and incinerates mature plants of this species, that could spell this species’ extinction in the area where the fire occurred.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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At the same time, southern states and regions in an advanced demographic transition must prepare for an aging population by strengthening geriatric care and Social Security.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
26 Jan. 2025
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His mother, meanwhile, is a geriatric wreck who needs around-the-clock attention.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
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