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You’re never too old, and you’re not the only reader with this predicament.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
He said that nearly 40 percent of children admitted to hospitals with severe wasting and medical complications were babies under the age of six months old.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The order directed the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of U.S. citizens who reside in each state and will be at least 18 years old by Election Day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
On a factory floor in the southern city of Chengdu, the old and and the new are working side by side.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Then it cast them off like an old human shoe.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
"It's a little hard to justify," the elder Gao, 76, said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
As the elder son, Jared was on track to enter the family business, which amassed thousands of New Jersey apartment units under Charlie’s leadership.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Like many Emersonians, the elder Alcott was a vegetarian who cherished animal welfare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Nasarenko said he was the beneficiary of a 2018 law that grants prison inmates who had served 25 years continuously and were over 60 years old an opportunity to seek elder parole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The chief elder stood, and so did the rest of the ancestors, the Amagqirha’s humming chant still powering their ghostly presence.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Hyundai will not apply the wage peak system, which gradually reduces the salaries of older workers in their final years, after the retirement age is extended, the union said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
With more than 100 credits to her name, she considered herself one of “the most energetic and agile” older actors around and “the oldest living student,” she wrote in her IMDb profile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Some have a much higher share of older residents and greater reliance on Medicare.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
"I'm just scared when he gets older, when he starts crawling around, I can't even allow him to crawl in such a place like that because it's so dirty," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
‘I saw the way he smiled at you. A few years older than us, sure, but he’s very handsome. Don’t you think?’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
The eldest is Kenny Heath, 63, a commercial fisherman who hauled in 32 bushels of crabs the day he put his 40-foot boat to the test in Pocomoke City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Later in life, Law provided the voice of Mrs Partridge in Dame Emma's 2005 film Nanny McPhee, which her eldest daughter wrote and starred in.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
With his eldest nearing the end of her time in primary school -- and clandestine courses in their northern city costing more than half his salary -- he sees no option but to leave.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Her two eldest children fit their uniforms from the last school year but her youngest needed new uniform with school logos.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Gunwoo’s father had been so proud of the shoes he’d gotten from his eldest son, a police officer in Daejeon.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
I have already outlived my male predecessors by about six years — the oldest died at 78 — and I suspect I may not have many years left.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
With more than 100 credits to her name, she considered herself one of “the most energetic and agile” older actors around and “the oldest living student,” she wrote in her IMDb profile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
And since things take a turn for the medical, Duffy’s oldest daughter, Evita, and her husband, Wisconsin Republican congressional candidate Michael Alfonso, enlist an ultrasound tech to reveal their unborn child’s gender.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
The oldest surviving identification of Holbein’s drawing as Anne is a 1649 print by the engraver Wenceslaus Hollar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Dr. Coppola, this is our oldest daughter, Joylette; our middle daughter, Connie; and our youngest, Kathy.”
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
