middle age
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of middle age
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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New findings from Texas A&M University suggest creatine may be particularly useful in middle age, when preserving muscle becomes increasingly important.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Nine siblings faced a collective struggle against frontotemporal dementia, which strikes in middle age and radically changes lives and personalities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
What Huberman’s worldview proposes is that motivated people can take small actions to relieve themselves of these endemic problems of middle age.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
My friends are the same age, and I had seen the threat that middle age poses, the compulsion to make really poor choices at the cost of so much.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
By early middle age, Harding’s biographer Francis Russell writes, his “lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his steel-gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health.”
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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