elderly
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The company has much bigger ambitions than just cleaning, envisioning a world with robots capable of doing tasks like plumbing, electrical work, carpentry and elderly care.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
"There's been a tendency for an increase in adults and the elderly coming to the general clinic," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Those who stayed, most of them elderly, got used to cooking over open fires in their courtyards and the sound of drones buzzing overhead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Some of Kyiv's most vulnerable citizens – the elderly and women with young children – are being offered places in converted sanatoriums and rehabilitation centres in the city's forested outskirts.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Access to food is increasingly difficult; one night Father Monaghan watches an elderly man lead his son through the trash, searching for scraps.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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"The Ugly One," Vocabulary from Chapters 16-20
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