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- noun Plural form of
Methuselah .
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Examples
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They are examining the eating habits of oldsters in longevity hot spots like Okinawa, which has five times the U.S.' proportion of centenarians, and they're probing towns in Sardinia that have unusually many male Methuselahs.
How To Live To 100 2009
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Kenyon, director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at the University of California, San Francisco, has tinkered with two genes that turn simple worms into mini-Methuselahs, with life spans of up to 144 days.
Never Say Die 2008
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To a casual observer—and there are no observers more casually lazy than the press—it looked as if no one had shown up to hear Haley speak because all those weary Methuselahs were staying in the shade of the trees.
How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008
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The only single-sized bottles that trade as a standard unit are the specialty, large-format bottles, such as jeroboams, Methuselahs, and others, and particularly old and rare 750ml bottles for which a single case may no longer exist.
Investing in Liquid Assets David Sokolin 2008
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To a casual observer—and there are no observers more casually lazy than the press—it looked as if no one had shown up to hear Haley speak because all those weary Methuselahs were staying in the shade of the trees.
How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008
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To a casual observer—and there are no observers more casually lazy than the press—it looked as if no one had shown up to hear Haley speak because all those weary Methuselahs were staying in the shade of the trees.
How to Rig an Election Allen Raymond with Ian Spiegelman 2008
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The only single-sized bottles that trade as a standard unit are the specialty, large-format bottles, such as jeroboams, Methuselahs, and others, and particularly old and rare 750ml bottles for which a single case may no longer exist.
Investing in Liquid Assets David Sokolin 2008
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"I don't think we'll see any Methuselahs in our lifetime," says Sinclair.
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Charles the Fifth can never hope to live within two Methuselahs of
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Some corals have been radiocarbon-dated to two thousand years old, suggesting that they are the Methuselahs of the sea, but their destruction was just the beginning of the tragedy.
Where Wonders Await Us Flannery, Tim 2007
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