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How to use the word Older in a Sentence?

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This is a difficult situation for me. I love my older brother Bobby. He has extraordinary charisma and is a very gifted speaker, i admire his past work as an environmentalist – because of him, we can swim in the Hudson. But due to a wide range of Bobby’s positions, I’m supporting President Biden.

– Patrick Kennedy

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1 year ago

Our study found that even a 5% weight loss increases mortality risk, particularly in older men.

– Monira Hussain

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1 year ago

Both them and the older girls, they understand what this fight is about. They had to probably grow up a little bit faster during this year, they had classmates from Kyiv who went through horrible experiences this year.

– Oksana Markarova

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1 year ago

Most of the associations we saw between menopause and tau protein occurred in the context of high amyloid, now a large portion of the older population do accumulate amyloid as they get older — it’s not that uncommon.

– Gillian Coughlan

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1 year ago

But if stress is continuous, especially in older or unhealthy individuals, the long-term effects of the response to stress may lead to significant health issues.

– Richard Scrivener

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1 year ago

We would ask for a volunteer, and, of course, one of the older gentlemen would throw up one of the younger gentlemen to go up.

– Alexis Ballard

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1 year ago

There is a phenomenon of decreasing overall colorectal cancer rates in the population in general, we think because of the increase in screening for particularly for older adults, but that doesn’t really account for the overall increase in the number of patients younger than, say, 50 and 45 that are developing cancer.

– Steven Lee-Kong

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1 year ago

They were established as risk factors in older cohorts of patients, but they do seem to be also associated with early-onset disease, and those are things like excess body weight, lack of physical activity, high consumption of processed meat and red meat, very high alcohol consumption.

– Rebecca Siegel

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1 year ago

Which of our patients with cancer should get it? How can we prioritize between American lives? Should our limited vials go to an older woman who was just diagnosed with lung cancer, a young man who’s already been successfully taking it for testicular cancer, or a baby with neuroblastoma and aggressive cancer for which this drug is recommended but others might substitute? as a doctor who’s devoted my life to fighting cancer, it’s hard to express how horrible that is.

– Andrew Shuman

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1 year ago

In general, women have stronger immune response, including( to the) flu vaccine, the evidence is that these differences reflect hormonal, genetic and environmental differences, which can change over the lifespan, so these differences may be less prominent among older adults.

– Phyllis Zee

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1 year ago

Shingrix is also recommended for adults 19 years and older who have weakened immune systems because of disease or therapy.

– The CDC

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1 year ago

They have young families and so much of their life ahead of them. That’s why I encourage my patients who are age 45 years and older to get screened, i also encourage people to let their doctor know if they have a family history of colon cancer. There is genetic testing we can do to identify some at-risk patients early before they develop cancer.

– Joel Gabre

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1 year ago

I don’t think it’s set in, the players I’m going to be associated with for the contest, i think one day when I get older it’ll be something I brag about to my kids but right now I can’t even really digest it.

– Mac McClung

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1 year ago

What you’re seeing head-on is the marketing efforts by the gun industry to target a new market. The primary base of the gun industry’s sales attention has been older White males. And what’s happening is they’re dying off. To borrow a phrase in the tobacco industry, the industry is not finding replacement shooters to take their place.

– Chris Cheng

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1 year ago

The audience for them is quite broad, look at [Prince] Harry’s memoir, for example. You’re going to have royal watchers and supporters who are probably an older demographic reading the book, as well as potentially younger readers who are interested in Harry and Meghan’s story or their philanthropic endeavors. Obviously, a certain level of interest in the memoirist’s area of focus – whether they’re an actor, or an athlete, a trauma victim, or a royal – is going to have an impact on whether a reader picks up the book, but I think it’s less important than for other categories or genres.

– Rutger Bruining

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1 year ago

My mother, my two older brothers, my sister-in-law and her little daughter. There were seven people including my daughter. They were all under the rubble.

– Mesut Hancer

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1 year ago

Your chances of getting infected are altered very little with the [booster], so you can’t say with any scientific integrity that protecting others is why you should get it, my focus is on people who are 65 and older and those who are immune-compromised. That’s who I think really should get.

– Michael Osterholm

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1 year ago

The bright light of a TV, computer or smartphone can affect your sleep patterns and keep you alert when you should be getting sleepy, sleeping is something you’ve done your whole life, but the older you get, the harder it can get to fall sleep, so practice good sleep hygiene.

– Raj Dasgupta

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1 year ago

She was older, in her 40s. She had surgery and lost 150 pounds. And then she put herself in front of a bus and died because she had underlying bipolar disorder she had been self-medicating with food, we as a society use a lot of food to hide trauma. What we need in this country is more psychological counseling for everybody, not just for people who undergo bariatric surgery.

– Caroline Apovian

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1 year ago

I know Maggie and I will continue to share memories until we are in our 90s or older, perhaps we will travel the world together after we retire. See what other chance encounters we may come across while waiting in airports.

– Cindy Jarrin

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1 year ago

While the Gen Z and Millennial cohorts are both lucrative and interesting, there is something of an obsession with them in retail and fashion that is often to the detriment of older generations, the truth is that more mature cohorts account for a lot of retail spending and there is a significant opportunity that is not always properly addressed.

– Neil Saunders

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1 year ago

In our district, the community of Tooleville has run out of water as the groundwater table drops and aging infrastructure fails or becomes obsolete, tulare County advises me that if California’s droughts continue, more small and rural communities in our district with older infrastructure could meet the exact same fate.

– Kevin McCarthy

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1 year ago

I’m so excited to be a part of 80 for Brady and the Diane Warren title song for it. Working with Jane, Lily, and Sally Field again, my older pals that are in the movie, and then working with all the wonderful artists on the song and video, like Belinda Carlisle, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Estefan and Debbie Harry was a joy, this is very exciting to me. I love feeling like I’m still part of something great and being with those gals that we know are great was a thrill.

– Dolly Parton

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1 year ago

Just because I’m getting older, I don’t want to let go of those (traditions) and have them fall to the wayside because of other obligations.

– The Woks of Life

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1 year ago

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