age
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If you’re a certain age — say, the generation most excited by the prospect of a “Rocky” origin story — you probably have spent a good few decades watching people imitate Sylvester Stallone.
From Los Angeles Times â Nov. 6, 2026
At the age of 39, Jake Flynn is “a middle manager, lower-middle really, in the marketing department of a tech company that’s expediting human obsolescence.”
From The Wall Street Journal â Nov. 6, 2026
The central midfielder then moved to Sunderland and helped them win promotion to the Premier League before joining German side Borussia Dortmund at the age of 19 in a deal worth up to £31m.
From BBC â Nov. 6, 2026
Their average age was 64, and women accounted for 51% of the study population.
From Science Daily â Nov. 6, 2026
Who knew her exact age except her husband?
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
The pair, who cannot be named due to their ages, have been remanded in custody to appear at Southampton Magistrates' Court on Friday morning.
From BBC â Nov. 6, 2026
The series centres on the adventures of green-clad warrior Link, who battles the evil demon Ganondorf across the ages trying to save Princess Zelda.
From Barron's â Nov. 5, 2026
Foxx is already a seasoned father with two adult daughters, ages 32 and 18.
From Los Angeles Times â Nov. 5, 2026
The same survey found that 30% of adults between the ages of 19 and 64 are paying off medical debt.
From MarketWatch â Nov. 4, 2026
How many girls like me, through the ages, have sung these sad songs as they dreamed of freedom?
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Former US senator Jay Rockefeller, an heir to one of America's wealthiest dynasties who devoted decades to fighting poverty and expanding healthcare, has died aged 89, US media reported Friday.
From Barron's â Nov. 6, 2026
A friend had mentioned their two children, aged one and three, were not with Mathewson when she was on a school run.
From BBC â Nov. 6, 2026
Among Latinos aged 18 to 29, 70 percent voted for Democratic candidates for the House, according to CIRCLE, a research center at Tufts University in Boston.
From Barron's â Nov. 5, 2026
The Holding Out For a Hero singer, whose real name was Gaynor Hopkins, died in a hospital in Portugal in July, aged 75, after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery earlier this year.
From BBC â Nov. 5, 2026
One belonged to a boy aged about twelve or thirteen, and the other to a girl of about nine or ten.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Crumbling masonry, ageing electrics, frequent leaks and high asbestos levels are some of the problems besetting the Palace of Westminster, parts of which are over 900 years old.
From Barron's â Nov. 4, 2026
India's neighbour China has spent years grappling with an ageing population, rolling out measures to encourage younger people to marry and boost births as its workforce shrinks.
From BBC â Oct. 30, 2026
Japan has addressed issues faced by its ageing population by introducing a mix of long-term care insurance, public nursing facilities, social exchange programmes and community-based support systems.
From BBC â Oct. 30, 2026
Japan has registered a record number of foreigners living in the country this year despite growing anti-immigration sentiment, as the country grapples with problems caused by an ageing and shrinking population.
From Barron's â Oct. 17, 2026
They were both old and round, and they lived in their flat with a number of ageing Highland terriers who had names like Hamish and Andrew and Jock.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
Hospital stays have gotten longer because of America’s aging population.
From The Wall Street Journal â Nov. 6, 2026
She’s still too young to know how impossible aging can be.
From Los Angeles Times â Nov. 6, 2026
Luna has said in the past that he would like to see the aging jail shut down if it is first replaced with a modern facility providing clinical care to inmates.
From Los Angeles Times â Nov. 4, 2026
Muscles can begin losing their strength and ability to recover surprisingly early in the aging process.
From Science Daily â Nov. 4, 2026
Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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