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  • noun Plural form of nonagenarian.

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Examples

  • In a time when almost half of America's teachers call it quits after five years, there are a few octogenarians and nonagenarians who continue to inspire and instruct the next generation into their golden years.

    Passionate Senior Citizens Rule Classrooms Into Their 80s, 90s The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The share of octogenarians and nonagenarians on the federal bench has doubled in the past 20 years...

    Wonkbook: Day two of the repeal fight Ezra Klein 2011

  • Meanwhile the smugly ambidextrous nonagenarians, having warmed up, are now approaching peak fitness levels.

    45 entries from March 2008 2008

  • At ninety, Sarah was unquestionably a woman whom a modern obstetrician would call an elderly primigravida, a term that includes all women over thirty-five—not just nonagenarians.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • For the National Game halfway through the evening you link live to all the other Gala Bingo halls in the country and get beaten by nonagenarians in Basingstoke.

    45 entries from March 2008 2008

  • Clinton often tipped her hat to the pre-Nineteenth-Amendment nonagenarians attending her rallies in wheelchairs.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • Clinton often tipped her hat to the pre-Nineteenth-Amendment nonagenarians attending her rallies in wheelchairs.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • At ninety, Sarah was unquestionably a woman whom a modern obstetrician would call an elderly primigravida, a term that includes all women over thirty-five—not just nonagenarians.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • But the larger reality is, they represent a generation of near-nonagenarians (one that includes "Family Circus's" Bil Keane, and the 80something Mell Lazarus, among numerous others) who have great stories to share now.

    The First Pitch: Calling upon Ken Burns to consider the American cartoon 2010

  • Clinton often tipped her hat to the pre-Nineteenth-Amendment nonagenarians attending her rallies in wheelchairs.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

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