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Recent Examples of anecdotage
After his initial campaign trip to New Hampshire, Biden was warned by his aides not to wallow in his anecdotage.
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Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anecdotage
Noun
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Trump recalled Esposito having a baseball bat under his desk and, in his dotage, swinging a cane at uncooperative elements.—
John Ganz,
airmail.news,
8 Feb. 2025
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Butler remains a talented, if mercurial, two-way star, even in his relative dotage at age 35 with 14 years of mileage — including two runs to the Finals with Miami — under his belt.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
Newsweek,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Salles doesn’t clarify his viewpoint until the end, when Eunice ages into senility.—
Armond White,
National Review,
7 Feb. 2025
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The senility of too many powerful leaders in Washington is a silent scandal.—
John Fund,
National Review,
22 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Cellular senescence: With this phenomenon, cells stop dividing, causing aging signs like thinning skin and age spots.—
Melissa Rudy,
Fox News,
20 Nov. 2024
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President Biden’s senescence became too patent to ignore, and he was sidelined from the race.—
Andrew C. McCarthy,
National Review,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Many artists—Titian and de Kooning alike—have found a second childhood in old age; no other painter ever became younger in his sixties.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2023
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Now that prestige art movies are either gross or failing at the box office, EO shows us that film culture is going through a jaded second childhood.—
Armond White,
National Review,
2 Dec. 2022
Cite this Entry
“Anecdotage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anecdotage. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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