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- verb   Present participle of 
gray . 
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Examples
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Mulligan has, predictably, always hated it, and the Director, too, a tall, thin graying Blanco named Dane Coleman.
Archive 2010-02-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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His hard face, framed in short, graying hair, softened.
THE NEWS BLOG 2004
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She shut her harsh lips together tightly at what she saw; Jase certainly was puffy under his watery, pink-rimmed eyes, and the withered cheeks above his thin graying beard really did have a pasty, gray look.
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It's one of the issues that the President has focused on, the graying of America -- the so-called graying of America.
Press Briefing By Secretary Of Hud Andrew Cuomo ITY National Archives 1999
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A lot of nice words, but hardly a bold action guaranteeing all those new R&D types to take over from the "graying" workforce; sounds like more of the same that we've been getting from both sides of the aisle.
Obama R&D Speech Provides Very Little for NASA - NASA Watch 2009
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I predict you/we will be surprised how old a lot of us are, after all it is a "graying" demographic.
What is your age? 2009
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I predict you/we will be surprised how old a lot of us are, after all it is a "graying" demographic.
What is your age? 2009
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The problem of "graying" has been with us for a long time now.
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The Silicon Valley Mercury News reports on what they call the "graying" of Stanford:
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In the report scientists called the spread of dementia "an epidemic that is increasing its pace with the 'graying' of the population around the world."
World Alzheimer Report: Dementia Costs To Exceed $600 Billion In 2010 2010
 
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