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  • As a middle-ager, I am tired of that attitude among the young.

    J.D. Salinger: Dead As Hell | Manolith 2010

  • She would require all young adults, people in their 20s and 30s, to buy health insurance, but more than that, to pay the same price for it as a 55-year-old, as a middle-ager.

    The New Populists 2008

  • Ultimates is the bitter, cynical teenager, All-Star Superman is the nostalgic middle-ager.

    Top 100 Comic Book Runs #35-31 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • But it was a long day for a middle-ager with a back that sometimes screams.

    USATODAY.com - Mickelson, Couples enjoy time together in final group 2006

  • That achilles tendon thing has been become a Greek myth: witness my tearing one apart as middle-ager playing basketball and it mending in a matter of months.

    A Second Look at USHCN Classification #2 « Climate Audit 2007

  • They knew it, and so when a lone middle-ager sauntered casually in among them, the assumption on their part was that he waseither insane, drunk, stim-stymied, or something else.

    The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

  • It's like I suddenly saw my whole life differently through the eyes of a middle-ager.

    Forbes.com: News 85broads 2011

  • In Come Rain or Shine, an underachieving, jazz-obsessed middle-ager visits former university friends and finds himself farcically humiliated.

    The Slovak Spectator 2010

  • For the next five minutes, Kati turned the back of her head to me and I listened to her chat quietly with her middle-ager about their tattoos.

    The Bad Twin 2010

  • I am a middle-ager with 25+ years experience in educational administration, who for personal reasons, amazingly, my daughter, wants desperately to move to the Southern United States from the mid-west.

    Wired Campus 2010

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