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dotage

[doh-tij] / ˈdoʊ tɪdʒ /


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It broke Lyndon Johnson, turned Barack Obama’s hair gray and accelerated Joe Biden’s decline into dotage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

"I've always wanted to tap dance, and in my dotage perhaps it's something I could take up," said Queen Camilla, when she met Johannes Radebe from the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing show.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2024

We meet Bob in his dotage; retired from life as a librarian, he stumbles into a new sense of purpose as a senior-center volunteer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

Charles took over the family business well past normal retirement age, while Amis was denied the illustrious dotage that great writers deserve.

From New York Times ● May 22, 2023

They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen


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