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senior moment
noun
a short interval in which an older person succumbs to a mental or physical lack of energy or consistency US- When something temporarily goes awry in her recall cells, she waves it away: “Oh, pardon me, I’m having a senior moment.” — Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald, p. 17, 22 November 1996
- — Walter A. Atkinson, Forgive Us Our Senior Moments., 2002
- The Queen has predictably been criticised for having a senior moment during a lecture at the end of her state visit to Germany–almost certainly by people who have never fallen asleep themselves in similar circumstances. — The Guardian, 6 November 2004
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