The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The result is that midlife crises have become a lot less wild: fewer mistresses and motorcycles and more medical visits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
James Baldwin explained why black people don't have midlife crises.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2020
Male midlife crises, which are based, as far as I can tell, on how men feel about their age, are a subgenre of film, television, music and literature.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019
As Lyonne’s Nadia Vulvokov keeps dying and restarting her life, the team behind the show uses its looping structure to examine midlife crises, gentrification, our need for human connection and possibly the Tompkins Square riots.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2019
So, the year on Earth, she figures, should be 2242, and her classmates should now be approaching their midlife crises.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
