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middle age

NOUN
middle years
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Someone who has no retirement savings in middle age can, unfortunately, receive the same amount of scorn as a well-heeled retiree who has $10 million in middle age.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

Ruth Jones and Steve Speirs are set to team up once again in a comedy about the challenges of relationships in middle age.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Yet if the album is rooted in the creative awakenings of George’s youth, it’s also the 51-year-old’s way of embracing middle age.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

The team then tracked how the numbers of these cells changed as the mice moved from young adulthood to middle age and then to old age.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

It was the bleak face of middle age, waiting intent and stoical between the beefy faces of the soldiers.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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