the middle-aged
noun
: middle-aged people : people between the age of about 40 and the age of about 60
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Opposite the middle-aged acoustic guitar players and singers—succeeded by a hunky chain-smoking violinist in a camel suit—is an octogenarian with all his teeth missing.
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Alexandra Pereira, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
One is the awesome might of the middle-aged and elderly.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
The flamboyant conceptual artist is talking to her stepdaughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder), who’s grown from the morose teenager of Beetlejuice (1988) into the middle-aged star of a hokey ghost-hunting reality show.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
An experienced camper, Sam takes the change in stride, spending much of the weekend—and the movie’s 90-minute run time—observing and humoring the middle-aged men.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
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Alexandra Pereira, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
One is the awesome might of the middle-aged and elderly.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
The flamboyant conceptual artist is talking to her stepdaughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder), who’s grown from the morose teenager of Beetlejuice (1988) into the middle-aged star of a hokey ghost-hunting reality show.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
An experienced camper, Sam takes the change in stride, spending much of the weekend—and the movie’s 90-minute run time—observing and humoring the middle-aged men.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2024
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