graybeard
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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
The Stars also have talent up front in captain Jamie Benn, center Tyler Seguin and graybeard Joe Pavelski to matchup up with the Golden Knights’ talented forwards led by Mark Stone.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 5, 2020
As the resident graybeard, he didn’t mind giving reporters some light trash talk.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2019
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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