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Viewed by many in England as there for the taking in last winter's Ashes despite a 4-1 win, they are also labelled too old by many observers at home.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
History offers a more reassuring outlook once a bull market turns four years old.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2026
Think back to 1992 when Troy Starr of Taft was 30 years old and took his team to the City 3-A final after a winless 1991 season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The train system is "old and creaky and it's outdated," he admitted.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
To pass the time, he began singing old ballads and romances he remembered.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Some of Mr. Spencer’s family stories—how his mother was kept from holding his elder brother, John, who died a few hours after birth—are wretched and empathetically told.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The abrupt exits have frazzled some of the city’s elder statesmen, chagrined politicians—and prompted some chief executives to make not-so-subtle digs at their former neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
But in that year, the supplemental poverty measure, or SPM, indicated that elder poverty was at 10.6%, while the more accurate measure using tax records showed that poverty was only at 6.1%, Biggs said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Now they have just one player in his 30s: That’s 30-year-old Kevon Looney, who smiled at the thought that he is suddenly the elder statesman of the team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
“Good morning, Auntie,” she said, deferring to the respectful greeting for an elder.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Many still in use are powered by older, two-stroke engines, like those in chain saws, which are louder and more polluting than four-stroke engines, like those in cars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
It continues to affect older adults most often, although rates among people younger than 50 have been rising in recent decades.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Millions of older adults will need to find new healthcare coverage for 2027 after several insurers exited markets and cut back on their offerings to protect profit margins.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Everybody was getting older in the band, so whatever happened, you can’t place the blame just on me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Lou opens the window and calls out to them, “Y’all go on and play by the pond with the older kids.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The couple have four U.S.-born children together, and their eldest son, Carlos Ortiz Jr., is a sergeant in the Marine Corps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Their eldest son, 26-year-old Ortiz Jr., is near the end of his enlistment and was planning to buy a house in Riverside for his wife and two young children to start their next chapter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
But his eldest son is now within reach of the presidency, his wife and another son are headed to the Senate, and his youngest son and brother to the lower house of Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
So the eldest will have to wait until 2082, and the youngest until 2083.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
France appeared on the knee of the eldest male child on the death of each father.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
"The oldest athlete is still competing but I am happy to run with the Gen Zs."
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
In May, Bowie State University, Maryland’s oldest HBCU, eliminated 79 jobs in the face of an $18 million budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
The Dodgers have the oldest group of position players in the league, so they cherished the bye that gave them five days off before the division series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
That would place them tens of millions of years before the oldest definitive macroscopic animal fossils.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Well, that may very well be, but Seven wasn’t ready to give up on her oldest, dearest dream just yet.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
