as in elder
a person of advanced years
more and more senior citizens are living active, rewarding lives
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Recent Examples of senior citizen
On this sunny day, many of the participants were senior citizens.
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Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Scrapping taxes on Social Security might sound appealing to many senior citizens in the near-term, but over the long term that would weaken the stability of the program, Freese said.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 15 May 2025
Clinton: Medicaid pays for about 40% of all childbirth and pays for an enormous percentage of senior citizens' health care and a lot of other stuff.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 June 2025
On top of this, the House Ways and Means Committee has thrown a potpourri of assorted other tax cuts: through 2028, for instance, tips, overtime income, and car loan interests would be tax-free, and senior citizens would get bigger standard deductions.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 22 May 2025
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Christine Ledbetter, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Scrapping taxes on Social Security might sound appealing to many senior citizens in the near-term, but over the long term that would weaken the stability of the program, Freese said.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 15 May 2025
Clinton: Medicaid pays for about 40% of all childbirth and pays for an enormous percentage of senior citizens' health care and a lot of other stuff.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 June 2025
On top of this, the House Ways and Means Committee has thrown a potpourri of assorted other tax cuts: through 2028, for instance, tips, overtime income, and car loan interests would be tax-free, and senior citizens would get bigger standard deductions.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for senior citizen
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Columnist Steve Lopez asks: If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?—
Kevinisha Walker,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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Every day of inaction is an act of aggression against the system that protects our elders from poverty and indignity.—
Teresa Ghilarducci,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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The study, detailed this week in the journal Scientific Reports, found that a slight majority (57.1 percent) of adult chimpanzees observed would yawn in response to seeing the android head yawn.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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This shift marks a generational change in how adult content is consumed.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
5 June 2025
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Whereas modern extermination tends to involve poisons or traps that a professional later clears, ancients had to take on pests one by one.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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Read More: These 5 Ancient Civilizations Treasured Their Pets Coping with Critters The discovery of archeological remains has helped scientists better understand how ancients coped with bothersome critters.—
Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi,
Discover Magazine,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Senior citizen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senior%20citizen. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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