How to Use supercentenarian in a Sentence

supercentenarian

noun
  • Older adults and supercentenarians who age well have a gut microbiome that looks more like those of younger people.
    — Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2026
  • That means researchers could confirm exactly when supercentenarians were born and died.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 June 2018
  • The group keeps records of Americans who lived at least 110 years, known as supercentenarians.
    — Bonnie L. Cook, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • Hendricks was a supercentenarian, a person who lives past 110.
    — Francesca Block, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Family members then moved into her home to assist the supercentenarian.
    — Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Tajima was in the exclusive group of supercentenarians, people who have crossed the 110-year threshold.
    — Alex Horton, ajc, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The supercentenarian was born in 1907, just seven years after the Sox moved to Chicago.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Thelma Sutcliffe, the oldest supercentenarian in the United States, has died.
    — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Out of just 36 supercentenarians reported worldwide, all but one of them are women, and 18 are Japanese.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The United States also doesn't have a federal or central database on the world's supercentenarians or centenarians.
    — Amir Vera, CNN, 14 May 2018
  • Come August 26, Miss Ethel will be one of just a handful of Americans considered a supercentenarian.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2019
  • So this would presumably provide additional depth and information beyond just studying supercentenarians.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Aug. 2022
  • American supercentenarian Susannah Mushatt Jones, who lived to be 116, never missed her daily ritual of four strips of bacon.
    — Marc Agronin, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Primas becoming a supercentenarian – someone who is 110 or older – was evidence of God's grace and a perpetually sunny outlook, the pastor added.
    — Cindy George, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Houston lost a celebrated supercentenarian in February when Emma Primas died at 112.
    — Cindy George, Houston Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • According to the Omaha World-Herald, the supercentenarian married her husband Bill in 1924.
    — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The supercentenarian celebrated her 110th birthday earlier this year in October.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • This study, which was published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, was the most thorough deep dive into the biology of supercentenarians (people over 110 years), according to Esteller.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • On Wednesday, the supercentenarian who is Minnesota's oldest resident and one of the oldest living people in the United States, will celebrate her 113th birthday.
    — Mary Lynn Smith, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Tanaka's great-granddaughter Junko Tanaka set up a Twitter account in January 2020 to celebrate the supercentenarian's life.
    — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Gibson held the title of Michigan’s oldest living person for nearly four years following the death of 114-year-old Irene Dunham on May 1, 2022, according to the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks people older than 110, known as supercentenarians.
    — Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 13 Mar. 2026

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