as in senility
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Noun
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Salles doesn’t clarify his viewpoint until the end, when Eunice ages into senility.—
Armond White,
National Review,
7 Feb. 2025 -
The senility of too many powerful leaders in Washington is a silent scandal.—
John Fund,
National Review,
22 Dec. 2024
Noun
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But the seniority system has lost some of its importance, Huder said, as Democratic and Republican activists push for younger representatives and senators to have more leadership roles and force some of the old bulls to be more responsive to their concerns.—
Daniel C. Vock,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2025
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The team that is working on this crash at DCA collectively has over 350 years of seniority with the NTSB.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Finding maturity and reconnecting with myself was a beautiful and important journey of self-discovery.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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Importantly, their houses have a steep maturity curve, with new houses needing time to develop their membership base resulting in early loss-making.—
Kenneth Squire,
CNBC,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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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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“Oldness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oldness. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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