graybeard
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They might be a reality again as he keeps scoring into his graybeard years.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
He isn’t the only graybeard playing at least one more season.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
He isn't the only graybeard playing at least one more season.
From Fox News ● Sep. 27, 2021
One of them, Harris English, jokingly wondered Wednesday if he was the team’s graybeard because he was 32.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021
There was that tone in his voice, that marvelous warmth, that made them all look not at Heth but at Lee, the graybeard, the dark-eyed, the old man, the fighter.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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