Nonagenarian

Last year however, we had two summer trips that were genealogical, starting with a family reunion where four generations of Italian-Americans rallied around our nonagenarian patriarch, my great uncle John Balma. ❋ Dr. Caroline Cicero (2011)

Another woman inquired about how long her nonagenarian grandmother would live. ❋ Susan M. Kirschbaum (2011)

Or, if you're a Californian nonagenarian with an ambitious wife, you can buy the whole magazine for $1 (plus taking on $47m in debts). ❋ Peter Preston (2010)

The students played all the parts, including the stories' narrators, the 10-year-olds who, over the intervening years, became the octogenarian and nonagenarian friends now seated in the front row. ❋ Steve Nelson (2011)

"Oracle" and "Seventy-Two Letters" were both on the Hugo shortlist for Best Novella, but were beaten by Jack Williamson's "The Ultimate Earth", which is not as good a story as either but was obviously the last chance to give an award to the nonagenarian author (it won the Nebula too, I guess for the same reason). ❋ Nwhyte (2009)

Ms. Kaplan, a fashionable nonagenarian, said she avoided the club in its heyday. ❋ Mike Vilensky (2011)

She laughed she had a great sense of humor for an nonagenarian and she sometimes cackled for many minutes which felt like serious overkill but it was like her laugh switch had been turned on and there was no OFF. ❋ Meg Pokrass (2011)

His nonagenarian father, the German emperor, was at the same moment in Berlin and also gravely ill. ❋ Martin Rubin (2011)

The post-communist Russian government has kept up the accolades — the nonagenarian Mr. Kalashikov is now a lieutenant general — and Mr. Chivers received little cooperation in his search for authoritative information on the development of the AK-47. ❋ Robert Kim (2010)

Brown's ambition for the project is not in doubt – she has confirmed rumours of discussions between billionaire Barry Diller, the backer for her own online publication, the Daily Beast, and Newsweek's nonagenarian proprietor, Sidney Harman. ❋ Edward Helmore In New York (2010)

Becoming a nonagenarian isn't unthinkable: One in four of today's 65-year-olds will live to 90, and one in 10 to age 95. ❋ Kelly Greene (2011)

What was a great gag when he was, say, 50 years old, and then to STILL be delivering a line like that at the age of 93, as he did on my UK television series, well that existential tension is what made his nonagenarian performances so incredibly spell-binding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sidney Harman (Mr. Jane Harman) paid a pittance (about a dollar, it is reported, because he is acquiring the magazine's debts and liabilities) and is generally regarded in the press reporting the buy as a super-rich elder selflessly saving an American institution, or a nonagenarian (that means ninety, not ageless) billionaire gambling (The American Way) to turn loss into profit once again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But, if you had to look to a nonagenarian for direction, you could do much worse than Harman, a technology pioneer and lover of the arts whose life and pursuits have taken as many twists as a telenovela. ❋ Unknown (2010)