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- adjective Alternative spelling of
midlife .
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Examples
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He really ought to be renamed the patron saint of the mid-life crisis because nowadays he seems to symbolize the question about what a person has actually achieved of value.
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Soon I found myself in mid-life, and I could no longer turn on the radio and listen to the treasured Jazz and Pop Standards of my youth -- unless I was willing to pay for the privilege, due to the aforementioned damnable practice of traditional radio stations' concentrating solely on advertiser-friendly, youth-oriented demographics.
James A. Fragale: Save the Music, Music, Music! James A. Fragale 2011
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When his behavior got noticeably stranger during the year later revealed through "discovery" I was truly worried he was experiencing some kind of depression or mid-life crisis.
Sally Fay: A Shallow Ending To A Deep Commitment Sally Fay 2012
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No sign of grey, and no sign of mid-life crisis either.
Frankie Dettori at Newmarket ready for the few that have got away Greg Wood 2010
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When his behavior got noticeably stranger during the year later revealed through "discovery" I was truly worried he was experiencing some kind of depression or mid-life crisis.
Sally Fay: A Shallow Ending To A Deep Commitment Sally Fay 2012
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For instance, we have to: more effectively engage traditional and new media, articulate standards and measurable outcomes, and help a new, forward-looking generation come into mid-life leadership roles in the movement.
Rev. Donald Heckman: Are We There Yet? The Progress of the Interfaith Movement Rev. Donald Heckman 2011
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Producer Lori Miller and Executive Producer Matt Cooper were partly responsible for the great little mid-life crisis film “Panic” from 2001, featuring Donald Sutherland and William H. Macy as father and son and business partners (i.e., hit men).
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009
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Well he may want kids, but he is also perhaps going through a mid-life crisis and had to figure it out for himself.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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For instance, we have to: more effectively engage traditional and new media, articulate standards and measurable outcomes, and help a new, forward-looking generation come into mid-life leadership roles in the movement.
Rev. Donald Heckman: Are We There Yet? The Progress of the Interfaith Movement Rev. Donald Heckman 2011
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But it is one of his choosing, one that he has earned the right to enjoy, and when his birthday arrives, the normal mid-life analysis of what he has done and what there is left to do will not take long.
Frankie Dettori at Newmarket ready for the few that have got away Greg Wood 2010
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