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senescent

adjective as in long in the tooth

adjective as in obsolescent

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It seems it was the Democrats’ unpopular, senescent, cantankerous candidate who was holding them back after all.

There have been female kings, stagings in innumerable languages, productions set in Viking times, or in a modern-day nursing home with Lear’s madness depicted as a senescent dream.

The trigger for the nerves’ retreat, Dimmeler and colleagues found, is senescent cells, damaged cells that accumulate in tissues with age.

Mice fed a particular type of ketogenic diet accumulated so-called senescent cells in their organs, researchers report today in Science Advances.

Regot says cells that are stressed after copying the genome can enter a dormant, or senescent stage, and mistakenly run the risk of copying their genome again.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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