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  • adjective Occurring in the middle point of one's life, about aged 40.
  • noun The middle period of one's life.

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Examples

  • BECK: I am traveling the -- I ` m traveling the country, doing what I call the midlife crisis tour, and it is amazing, when you get out of New York or -- I ` m sure it ` s the same in Los Angeles -- you get into the middle of the country or you get out of just those two cities, and everything becomes more real.

    CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2006 2006

  • In what she calls a "midlife affair with meds," Porizkova said she hoped that medication would calm her nerves and make it easier on her husband of 24 years and two children.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2011

  • The word "midlife" didn't appear in the dictionary until 1895.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

  • Cybill Shepard and Linda Evans -- two beauty icons now in midlife -- recently told Oprah that they only began to feel truly attractive as their identities shifted away from their appearance.

    Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: See Yourself As Beautiful: Replace Magic Potions With Cognitive Solutions Ph.D. Vivian Diller 2010

  • Years later, alone on a small lake a great distance from the city, near an invisible Canadian border where he settled in midlife, the boy who is now the age of his Uncle that afternoon on the river, skates backwards in the night, swiftly gliding around and around a frozen lake, extending his arms toward the darkness, pulling it with him.

    norbert blei | skating backwards « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • For my character Jo, that sense in midlife -- in mid happy life, it might be said -- of doors closing, of the falling away of the possibility of surprise, of being taken over by something, taken up, that is painful, and her pain has nothing to do with her marriage, beyond the predictability of its being comfortable, "good."

    An Interview with Sue Miller 2010

  • I consider myself blessed among women to be able to make this "change of career" in midlife!!

    Home Living 2009

  • Were I to marry a second time, in midlife or beyond, with my childbearing years behind me and my own income before me, I would have the First World luxury of choosing for a husband not a provider, a father, or any other conventionally male-protective figure but an emotional partner.

    Letters to the Editor 2009

  • Were I to marry a second time, in midlife or beyond, with my childbearing years behind me and my own income before me, I would have the First World luxury of choosing for a husband not a provider, a father, or any other conventionally male-protective figure but an emotional partner.

    Letters to the Editor 2009

  • Years later, alone on a small lake a great distance from the city, near an invisible Canadian border where he settled in midlife, the boy who is now the age of his Uncle that afternoon on the river, skates backwards in the night, swiftly gliding around and around a frozen lake, extending his arms toward the darkness, pulling it with him.

    January « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

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