How to Use progeria in a Sentence

progeria

noun
  • Teenagers with progeria age ultrafast.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Within a few weeks, the progression of symptoms in the mice with progeria began to slow down.
    — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 29 July 2019
  • The species was more common in centenarians, and low in mice with progeria.
    — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 29 July 2019
  • Viera deals with progeria syndrome, has served as inspiration.
    — Alex Putterman, ajc, 9 Sep. 2017
  • By the time children with progeria enter their teen-age years, their bodies have effectively aged eight or nine decades.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Gordon had never heard of progeria when Sam, her only child, was diagnosed with it at 22 months.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • That’s according to small, preliminary study in 27 kids with progeria.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Adalia was a champion for children and teenagers with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Average life expectancy for progeria children is about 14 years.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • But Adalia had Hutchinson-Gilford progeria, a rare and deadly condition.
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Most children with progeria die of hardening of the arteries, a common killer of the elderly, at an average age of just 14.
    — Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe, STAT, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Viera suffers from progeria, a disorder that accelerates children’s aging.
    — Alex Putterman, ajc, 9 Sep. 2017
  • In the testing, scientists used SATI to correct the gene that is responsible for progeria in mice.
    — Fox News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • At age 3, just hours after the birth of the Kushners’ daughter, Aaron was diagnosed with a rare disease, progeria, in which the body ages rapidly.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • With only 400 progeria patients worldwide, there aren’t enough of them for traditional trials — and the disease is so deadly that to give them a placebo is viewed as unethical.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 17 July 2021
  • Each tells the story of teenager, Kimberly Levaco, and her struggles with progeria, a genetic condition that causes a person to age faster than usual.
    — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Zokinvy halts the rapid aging associated with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome.
    — WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The film suggests that the movie industry’s maturity imposed on him a premature senescence, that the norms of the profession entailed an artistic progeria which Hong ultimately resisted by making the drastic decision to shift to self-production.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021

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