as in older
being of advanced years and especially past middle age
symptoms most often seen in senescent people
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Recent Examples of senescent
QAnon was for senescent boomers; fashwave and Embrace Masculinity clips are millennial-coded.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
If the cells were truly senescent, then the medications should both reduce the number of senescent cells and reverse many of the structural DNA changes and gene expression disruptions.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2025
If the cells were truly senescent, then the medications should both reduce the number of senescent cells and reverse many of the structural DNA changes and gene expression disruptions.
—Megan Molteni, STAT, 9 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senescent
Adjective
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In rare cases, salmonella can result in more serious illness and can be fatal in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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Medicaid is a crucial public health program in the United States, providing essential health care services to millions of low-income families, children, pregnant women, elderly adults and individuals with disabilities.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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With Venus retrograde in Aries starting on March 1 and affecting your career and outward expression, old insecurities about your worth and ambitions may surface.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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The movie set, like all others, should have only had blanks on hand, but somehow a number of live rounds made their way to the location and one such bullet ended up in the gun that went off as Hutchins and Baldwin lined up a shot in an old church.—
Marco della Cava,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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For example, many hard, aged cheeses are very low in lactose, and cheeses made from sheep’s milk and goat milk tend to be lower in lactose than those made from cow’s milk.—
Jess Cording,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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There’s a delicate balance in the vampires’ looks, aged but not anachronistic, haunting without feeling theatrical.—
Essence,
Essence,
1 May 2025
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“Senescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senescent. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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