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Geography (of a river, valley, or land surface) in the final stage of the cycle of erosion, characterized by flat extensive flood plains and minimum relief
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Whenever he has the opportunity, as he grows, he sees himself rejecting the old in an attempt to protect and enable the flourishing of this autonomous self--the core, seed or pip of himself--only to find his progress increasingly impeded and entrapped by oldness in various forms.
There was a newness and an oldness, oddly combining themselves into one impression.
For instance, if 0.5 is defined as a probability value for the oldness of a person, it can be said that there is a chance that he/she can be old.
The trendy suburb, popular among creative professionals nowadays, is a result of a 170-year period of urban regeneration that has transformed "the shabby commonplace of oldness" into a place having "some abstract value" [59].
FTIR spectroscopy is an adequate technique for studying wood components and also the changes that appear in spectra due to the modifications that appear in these spectra due to different treatments such as oldness, oxidation, and thermal degrading [20].
She said: "I like being able to live in today's world but at the same time have a feel of oldness.
Australian Human Rights Commission: The Power of Oldness Campaign Launch.
Some have the same shade of yellowish color that indicates the oldness of the parchment and some have the same handwriting.
In the oldness of the universe, our lifetimes are no more than the shine of a firefly.
Advertisements have also made their way into the masthead area by 1910 and, as the ads themselves use more "modern" typefaces, this only accentuates the oldness, or some might say tradition, of the Old-English style typeface.
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