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- noun Plural form of
greybeard .
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Examples
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Old-timers still a force THEY have a combined age of 19 and have contested 102 races but racing's "greybeards" Stately Dash and Savage Sevens proved they are far from spent forces when they ran the quinella in the Peter Snowden Handicap (1000m) at Randwick's Kensington course yesterday.
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He points to the presence of Kenneth Clarke and the return to the front bench, at 68, of Sir George Young, as proof that he is keen to hear from "greybeards" who are not part of the youthful inner-circle around the leader that has alienated many in the parliamentary party.
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But within hours of winning majorities in both houses of Congress, greybeards in the party were putting a damper on the mood.
Tea Party Candidates Have Drained GOP Resources The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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This isn't just a longing for the old certainties, the TV football equivalent of the Ostalgie of post-Soviet greybeards missing their daily tin of Stalinist Spam.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay 2011
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And some of them, notably James Butkiewicz, are so steeped in history that they "remember" certain aspects of the Depression better than the greybeards.
Outstanding Book, Standout Price, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But within hours of winning majorities in both houses of Congress, greybeards in the party were putting a damper on the mood.
Tea Party Candidates Have Drained GOP Resources The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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The greybeards hated the archaism of Burne-Jones's dense application of scumbled and rubbed watercolour, designed to mimic the tempera techniques of early renaissance painters.
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Then what happens to NASA when it goes from plenty of experienced greybeards to very few, mostly unexperienced greybeards?
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Even elderly matrons and greybeards with a foot in the grave screeched and shrilled their joy in the spectacle.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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But within hours of winning majorities in both houses of Congress, greybeards in the party were putting a damper on the mood.
Tea Party Candidates Have Drained GOP Resources Sam Stein 2010
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