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Synonyms & Antonyms for senior
Synonyms: Noun
Synonyms: Adjective
aged, aging (or ageing), ancient, elderly, geriatric, long-lived, old, older, over-the-hill, senescent, unyoung
Antonyms: Noun
Antonyms: Adjective
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Examples of senior in a Sentence
Noun
As his senior, she commanded quite a bit of respect. She was his senior in rank. high school juniors and seniorsAdjective
the senior vice president of marketing She is a senior aide to the president. a senior editor for the magazine He recently became a senior partner in the accounting firm. the men's senior baseball league
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Kappa Housing will receive $700,000 to support a 70-unit affordable housing project for seniors in Denver’s Northfield area. — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, "Grand Junction, Basalt, Denver projects among those awarded combined $10.4M in state housing grants this summer," 4 Sep. 2019 As with so many aspects of the housing crisis, the crunch for seniors is most obvious in gentrifying neighborhoods. — Los Angeles Times, "Seniors facing eviction fear homelessness and isolation as California’s housing crisis rolls on," 29 Aug. 2019 Long-term care isn’t covered by Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors. — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, "As costs mount, states scramble for new ways to pay for late-in-life care," 28 Aug. 2019 This will be a 94-bed facility that specializes in home-like memory care and assisted living for seniors. — From Staff Reports, Houston Chronicle, "Animal hospital, pet resort expand in Deer Park," 27 Aug. 2019 Tickets for the 2019 Mayfield Band Bash, available at the gate the night of the show, will cost $5 for adults, and $3 for seniors. — cleveland.com, "Annual Mayfield High Band Bash to feature six marching bands Sept. 21," 19 Aug. 2019 Who is looking out for seniors who have expensive drugs that do not have a generic? — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, "Letters: My name worked fine until a DMV clerk changed it," 18 Aug. 2019 The project joins others in the city boosting the amount of market rate and discounted housing for seniors. — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, "Old Memorial Stadium site in Baltimore to get more senior housing," 16 Aug. 2019 Workarounds exist, however: -Season Fun Pass, good for all 12 days and including free parking, costs $60, $40 for seniors. — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, "Alaska State Fair 2019: Fun from A to Z," 15 Aug. 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Of all the appointments Boris Johnson made on his first day as Britain’s prime minister last month, only one is drawing comparisons to Rasputin: Dominic Cummings as his senior political adviser. — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, "The shadowy strategist behind Boris Johnson’s Brexit push," 24 Aug. 2019 Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to the president, will be attending the event in Tampa, Florida, along with former Florida attorney general and Women for Trump co-chair Pam Bondi. — Grace Segers, CBS News, "Trump campaign holds events across several states to celebrate Women's Equality Day," 22 Aug. 2019 The files show Wheeler’s office paid for Elisabeth Perez, a senior adviser, to attend the 2019 South by Southwest technology conference and charged $3,371 for three nights at Marriott’s luxury W Austin hotel. — oregonlive.com, "Portland spent $1,100 a night on hotel for mayor’s aide, records show," 22 Aug. 2019 After leaving the Trump Administration, Spicer published a memoir, The Briefing, and took a job as a senior adviser at America First Action, a pro-Trump Super PAC. — Ciara Nugent, Time, "What to Know About Sean Spicer and the Controversy Over His Dancing With the Stars Casting," 22 Aug. 2019 Her title, senior adviser, understated her influence. — James Bandler, ProPublica, "How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon," 22 Aug. 2019 This man is not Boris Johnson, the new British Prime Minister, but his most senior adviser, Dominic Cummings. — Luke Mcgee, CNN, "Meet the real brains behind Boris Johnson's Brexit plan," 21 Aug. 2019 Stephanie Kelton, a senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders and a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University, is popular in a way that economists, almost definitionally, are not. — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, "The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money," 20 Aug. 2019 Bates served as the first senior policy adviser to the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee after the September 11, 2001 attacks - overseeing reports on bio-terrorism and border security. — Christopher Keating, courant.com, "Republicans call for former Connecticut Port Authority chairman to step aside from state election office," 20 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'senior.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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