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- noun Plural form of
octogenarian .
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Examples
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For years the retired pastor kept up an extended postcard-writing outreach to homebound and elderly people, calling them his "octogenarians" and "nonagenarians."
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For years the retired pastor kept up an extended postcard-writing outreach to homebound and elderly people, calling them his "octogenarians" and
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For years the retired pastor kept up an extended postcard-writing outreach to homebound and elderly people, calling them his "octogenarians" and "nonagenarians."
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For years the retired pastor kept up an extended postcard-writing outreach to homebound and elderly people, calling them his "octogenarians" and
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For years the retired pastor kept up an extended postcard-writing outreach to homebound and elderly people, calling them his "octogenarians" and "nonagenarians."
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For years the retired pastor kept up an extended postcard-writing outreach to homebound and elderly people, calling them his "octogenarians" and
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How can a hobby enjoyed by me and a few octogenarians be competitive with football?
Opera versus the NFL, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Those who are octogenarians now were born into a society in which average life expectancy barely reached 60.
Let's dispel this gloom about living longer and make life better for the old | Yvonne Roberts 2011
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Two more small-screen favorites, Kelsey Grammer of La Cage and Sean Hayes of a new Promises, Promises, are up for best leading actor in a musical, while the race for best featured actress pits two members of Broadway royalty — beloved octogenarians Barbara Cook and Angela Lansbury — against each other.
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It took only minutes for a dozen women, men and children to gather Saturday around Alfred Paley and his cousin, Seymour Paley, as the two octogenarians began to tell their stories.
Family gathers in District to celebrate centennial of immigration to U.S. from Russia Katherine Shaver 2010
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