late in life
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If individuals were solely responsible for their retirement savings, many would start too late in life.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
Only late in life did he find two serious loves, the songwriter Peter Jones and then the producer Jeff Romley, 50 years his junior, whom he married.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
He also befriended a Ukrainian worker named Nadja—whom he remembered wistfully, even late in life, decades after he last saw her.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Because dementia often develops late in life, studying its causes requires tracking participants for decades.
From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025
Historians tend to discount Gorges’s tale, partly because his memoirs, dictated late in life, mix up details, and partly because the notion that Tisquantum was abducted twice just seems incredible. “utterly void,” Dermer reported.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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