the middle-aged
noun
: middle-aged people : people between the age of about 40 and the age of about 60
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Without the luxury of time, these gateway providers typically lump patients into broad, generic categories: the middle-aged person with chest pain, the short-of-breath asthmatic, the vomiting pregnant patient, the septuagenarian with cough and fever, and so forth.
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Eric Snoey, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
Known around the hospital as Dr. Sebo, the middle-aged anesthesiologist has developed a reputation as a workhorse, albeit one with a penchant for inappropriate remarks, according to current and former colleagues.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Seventy years ago the middle-aged were in a twist about Elvis Presley swinging his hips on television.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
The series follows the middle-aged scion to the Tout-Paris, a Cancan hotspot akin to the Moulin Rouge.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
But most audiences would recognize his face from something, and over the past 30 years he’s built up an apex career for a character actor: the middle-aged crank who can headline a film but just as easily fill in as one of Dwayne Johnson’s action-movie sidekicks (in fact, he’s done that twice).
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
Take Tatiana, the middle-aged manager of a supermarket chain.
—Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
The fight sequences with Mr. Freeze, that’s very much for the middle-aged generation of Batman fans, and then a bunch of stuff in there for the kids as well.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2023
Lucia could offer a considerable step-up from the three distinctly unlikable protagonists of Grand Theft Auto 5: the psychotic hick Trevor, the middle-aged cynic Michael, and the quietly monstrous Franklin.
—Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
Eric Snoey, Twin Cities, 26 May 2024
Known around the hospital as Dr. Sebo, the middle-aged anesthesiologist has developed a reputation as a workhorse, albeit one with a penchant for inappropriate remarks, according to current and former colleagues.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
Seventy years ago the middle-aged were in a twist about Elvis Presley swinging his hips on television.
—Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
The series follows the middle-aged scion to the Tout-Paris, a Cancan hotspot akin to the Moulin Rouge.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 19 Mar. 2024
But most audiences would recognize his face from something, and over the past 30 years he’s built up an apex career for a character actor: the middle-aged crank who can headline a film but just as easily fill in as one of Dwayne Johnson’s action-movie sidekicks (in fact, he’s done that twice).
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
Take Tatiana, the middle-aged manager of a supermarket chain.
—Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
The fight sequences with Mr. Freeze, that’s very much for the middle-aged generation of Batman fans, and then a bunch of stuff in there for the kids as well.
—Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2023
Lucia could offer a considerable step-up from the three distinctly unlikable protagonists of Grand Theft Auto 5: the psychotic hick Trevor, the middle-aged cynic Michael, and the quietly monstrous Franklin.
—Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
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