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Your oldest friends won’t always be your biggest cheerleaders when your back is turned.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Of the team that started in Bilbao, Timoney was the oldest player at 30.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

However, Roger Stone, one of Trump’s oldest allies, seemingly helped save her job.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

Recently discovered off the coast of Bulgaria was a Greek merchant ship that is estimated to have sunk 2,400 years ago, the oldest known intact shipwreck in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Green was one of the oldest professors on campus, with gray hair that bushed out above his ears like the cheeks of a chipmunk.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin