How to Use gerontocracy in a Sentence

gerontocracy

noun
  • Samuel joins me now to talk about his new book and what studying gerontocracy might teach us.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • But in their polemics, these men are aligning themselves with the gerontocracy against the young.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Is gerontocracy the right diagnosis for what ails us?
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • But by the second decade of this century, the gerontocracy was no longer sustainable.
    — Christopher Dickey, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020
  • And Bloomberg is the same age as Biden, in keeping with the Democrats recent taste for gerontocracy.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 2 Feb. 2020
  • As for old-people-run-the world handwringing, Congress is less a gerontocracy than a late middle-age mosh pit.
    — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2024
  • But Congress’s gerontocracy problem shows no sign of abating.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2020
  • But that is why the attack on gerontocracy has to make retirement more attractive and sustainable, not less.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • Now that Americans can expect to live more than twice that long, the government has become a gerontocracy.
    — Charlotte Alter, Time, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This is the classic institutional drama that plays out in a gerontocracy.
    — Cassidy Creech, The Conversation, 14 Jan. 2025
  • To defeat gerontocracy, an embrace of the future is necessary.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • And now television is turning into a virtual gerontocracy as well.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • Mills gives off the disarming sense of a secure soul undeterred by whippersnappers who toss around fancy words such as gerontocracy.
    — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Putting ageism and ableism together yields the hand-wringing about gerontocracy among our political omphaloskeptics.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • The gerontocracy critique also threatens to deprive us of our most experienced leaders.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
  • However, nobody to date has proposed doing so by overturning gerontocracy.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • The president’s milestone birthday has brought new attention to the gerontocracy that has led both parties for years and raised questions about when a new generation will come forth.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2022
  • The result is that, in a time of inarguable crisis, the grip of the gerontocracy remains strong in both of America’s political parties.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 July 2022
  • Youth can’t help but be a contrast in an America that is run by a Boomer and Silent Generation gerontocracy.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 15 Feb. 2023
  • This omerta has begun to break, however, and one new point of contrast is the end of gerontocracy in Democratic House leadership.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But far from being unusual, Feinstein is simply the marginally oldest member of a body arguably best described as a gerontocracy.
    — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2017
  • There are certain benefits to the fact that the LDS Church is an unapologetic gerontocracy.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • But his explanation for the causes of America’s gerontocracy is less convincing.
    — Peter Gosselin, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Millennials, after all, are starting to gain political power at a time when America looks more like a gerontocracy than ever.
    — Charlotte Alter, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
  • That’s not to say Abbas and the rest of the Palestinian gerontocracy are any more capable of making peace than Israel’s right-wing government.
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
  • In an era of gerontocracy and career politicians, Platner, the 40-year-old oysterman, is a breath of fresh air on the national political stage.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The end of gerontocracy depends on making retirement great as a necessary part of an intentional social project of rejuvenation.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • His predecessors had all died in quick succession, victims of the USSR’s gerontocracy.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Others liken the United States to the Soviet Union in its final years—a brittle gerontocracy rotting from within.
    — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Among them are radical thinkers who contend that in order to defeat economic gerontocracy, Americans must first defang the elderly ruling class.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026

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