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dotage

noun as in feebleness, old age

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

Rebecca Amos, one of the park's vets, says a special diet and some exercise will be key to looking after Victoria in her dotage.

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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.

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

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However, she said the North wouldn’t simply dismiss his words as a “nonsensical remark from the person in his dotage.”

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