octogenarian

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for octogenarian
Adjective
  • For instance, if a drug is only available as a pill but an elderly patient can't swallow one, a doctor could write a prescription so that a compounding pharmacist could prepare it in liquid form.
    Sydney Lupkin, NPR, 29 July 2025
  • An elderly woman was in the back seat of the car in front of me.
    Ariel Saramandi, The Dial, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • The clinic, located at 1673 W. Shoreline Drive, Suite 100, offers adult and geriatric care.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 17 July 2025
  • His father worked as an engineer at General Electric Aviation and his mother was a geriatric psychiatrist.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • The idea is to place officers in certain neighborhoods and inside senior buildings.
    Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 27 July 2025
  • To see our list curated by senior dining reporter Mackensy Lunsford, follow the link here.
    Rosalind Bowling, Nashville Tennessean, 26 July 2025
Adjective
  • The team needs to stop signing over-the-hill pitchers who can’t last a full season.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 23 July 2025
  • In Season 1, Wilson stars as Pryce Cahill, an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • QAnon was for senescent boomers; fashwave and Embrace Masculinity clips are millennial-coded.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
  • If the cells were truly senescent, then the medications should both reduce the number of senescent cells and reverse many of the structural DNA changes and gene expression disruptions.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
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“Octogenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/octogenarian. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.

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