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noun

ageing

the process of growing old, or the changes that come with it

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Six example sentences with ageing, each labelled with its topic.

  • The clinic's research on ageing follows the same volunteers from sixty to ninety, measuring grip strength and memory every spring.

    Medicine

  • Every tour reveals the ageing of the fan base: the front rows that once jumped now sit, and shows end by ten.

    Music

  • Portraits of the queen across forty years record her ageing frankly, from smooth cheeks to the lined face on the last coins.

    History

  • Studies of ageing show that vocabulary keeps growing into the seventies even as reaction time slowly falls.

    Psychology

  • The ageing of the population means fewer workers support each retiree, and the pension math grows harder every year.

    Economics

  • Strength training slows the ageing of muscle, and eighty-year-olds who lift can still climb stairs without a rail.

    Fitness

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