dotage
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Moreover, though stories about starting all over again in one’s dotage are endearing and kindly, as “Calle Málaga” is, they have a core of sheer fantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
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.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025
Charles took over the family business well past normal retirement age, while Amis was denied the illustrious dotage that great writers deserve.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2022
They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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