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Recent Examples of octogenarian
In the five years since Hiroyasu Ando took sole charge at the top of Tokyo International Film Festival, the progress made under the energetic octogenarian former diplomat is palpable.
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Gavin J Blair, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2025
With the party looking for generational change, particularly after the concerns about former President Biden’s fitness to serve a second term, the idea of backing another almost octogenarian might not be ideal for some Democrats.
—Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
Fatih Akin directs, from an autobiographical screenplay by octogenarian filmmaker Hark Bohm.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Set during the Great Depression, a Milwaukee detective’s quest to find a Wisconsin cheese heiress lands him in Hungary and on a collision course with history to meet Nazis, spies, and swing musicians in the octogenarian literary giant’s first novel in over a decade.
—Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2025
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On streaming, Netflix is serving a diverse array of content from the second season of a septuagenarian's mystery-solving antics to a look back at the crime that tragically took the life of an iconic singer.—
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As president of the United States, he was stabbed in the heart with a letter opener by a septuagenarian cuckold.—
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The most important person in this book is Chang's nonagenarian mother, to whom the book is dedicated and whom Chang has been unable to visit in China since 2018.—
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In some ways, the Beckmen was a full-circle moment for the nonagenarian, a return to his roots as a designer who could find in the mundane an element of the extraordinary.—
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He was found guilty in 2025 of treating an elderly women suffering from liver disease without a medical license.—
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Rantz cited a recent attack on an elderly woman who was struck in the face with a board containing a nail, leaving her blind.—
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Iwuagwu worked as a professor in the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Department of Medicine, and as a UToledo Health geriatric medicine physician.—
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Reality is far more complicated, Ipsit Vahia, the chief of geriatric psychiatry at Mass General Brigham’s McLean Hospital and the director of its Technology and Aging Laboratory, told me.—
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Talla Mountjoy is senior director of programs for the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression at the University of Chicago.—
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Last month before the Alamo Bowl, starting quarterback Jayden Maiava announced his intention to stay at USC for his redshirt senior season after leading the Big Ten with 3,711 passing yards.—
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Who knew if these roles were flukes — one-offs, novelties — or if Jerry Adler would defy the odds stacked up against any actor, much less a sexagenarian new to the game, and continue to find work in his newfound profession.—
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The centenarian company, renowned for exporting American storytelling, has transformed into a media and experiential giant, capturing and reflecting the country’s traditions and ideals of optimism, ambition, and invention across the eras, and influencing popular culture globally.—
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For fundraisers, reaching centenarian donors requires sensitivity, patience and respect.—
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To play the 18th-century religious leader Ann Lee, for instance, Amanda Seyfried gave up Botox, her anti-aging intervention of choice, for an entire year, in addition to eschewing makeup on set.—
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Shoppers are impressed by the now-$20 anti-aging serum.—
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“Octogenarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/octogenarian. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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