graybeard
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It’s a conceit that pays off the second a shambolic Michael Keaton makes his entrance as a graybeard puttering about a near-derelict Wayne Manor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
They might be a reality again as he keeps scoring into his graybeard years.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
Sixteen years into the experiment, Twitter is a graybeard by internet years and by corporate standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
He isn't the only graybeard playing at least one more season.
From Fox News ● Sep. 27, 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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