middle age
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The Swedish pop singer maintains her distinct musical personality on a new album—her first since 2018—reflecting on life in middle age.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
As the artist moved into middle age, his prolific creative output continues, if anything with works that are more outspoken and political than earlier pieces.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026
Clearer long-term goals as he enters tennis middle age.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 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
At this very moment, no doubt, she is pondering with regret decisions made in the far-off past that have now left her, deep in middle age, so alone and desolate.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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