middle age
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of middle age
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Example Sentences
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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
The results showed that immune cells from the body had entered the brain, with the process occurring as early as middle age.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Like much of the show, the season’s details of middle age came from conversations Tropper heard around him during his years among Westchester’s ultrarich — many of them in the sauna or steam room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Jaques posited that middle age compels people to lean in to “the tragic, reflective and philosophical.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
They were boys and men past middle age, and two veterans who had been shot to pieces in Russia.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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