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  1. List of paraphrases for "oldest":

    eldest, earliest, older, elder, longest

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  1. Shanita Cooper:

    I grew up poor in rural Georgia, the oldest of six children, but this was one of the hardest moments of my life.

  2. Jean Reaves Rollins:

    The smallest, oldest (coal) plants were generally the ones the economics killed first. They were too expensive and too small to be retrofitted to meet new EPA standards.

  3. Moshe Kantor:

    The European Jewry is the oldest European minority and we have our experience of surviving under all possible circumstances, we will not give up our motherland, which is called Europe. We will not stop the history of European Jewry, that is for sure.

  4. Jochen Brocks:

    Scientists have been fighting for more than 75 years over what Dickinsonia and other bizarre fossils of the Ediacaran Biota were : giant single-celled amoeba, lichen, failed experiments of evolution or the earliest animals on Earth, the fossil fat now confirms Dickinsonia as the oldest known animal fossil.

  5. Jason Dorsey:

    The oldest millennials tell us they’re being pulled in three different directions, they’re often taking care of a child or children. They’re frequently taking care of a parent or parents. And they’re trying to navigate their jobs. And so that pull, there’s a lot going on there, and it’s a very stressful time.


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