Ageism is an English word with synonyms like discrimination or favoritism. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ageism in a sentence
Ageism meaning
The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.
Synonyms of Ageism
Using Ageism
- The main meaning on this page is: The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.
- Useful related words include: agism, discrimination, favoritism, favouritism.
- In the example corpus, ageism often appears in combinations such as: of ageism, ageism and, ageism is.
Context around Ageism
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ageism
- In this selection, "ageism" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gendered, timely, address, starts, says and issues stand out and add context to how "ageism" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little ageism might be and american industries ageism isn t. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ageism" sits close to words such as abenaki, abstracted and addendum, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ageism
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But it's unclear if that will blunt ageism. (9 words)
She’s an amazing symbol of ageism,” she said. (9 words)
One painful lesson addressed society's ageism toward women. (9 words)
Though ageism is pushed to the back burner when it comes to social issues to address, there are a handful of social strongholds that those of the older age bracket have resonated with, and been able to feel validated through, no matter their age. (44 words)
A mysterious service, though, offers her the ability to change into a younger twin (Margaret Qualley) – so long as she doesn’t remain so for too long. seems sure to go down as a classic satire of Hollywood ageism and youth obsession. (42 words)
As she makes it clear that she is only looking forward to the next 20 years of her life, she also seems to be combating and ringing the alarm on stereotypes surrounding women in the professional world and ageism. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) timely Ageism in Artificial Intelligence for Health and outlines eight important considerations to ensure that AI technologies for health address ageism.
Advocacy group EveryAGE Counts, which aims to tackle the nation's problem with ageism, says many elderly people experience stereotyping, discrimination and mistreatment.
But it's unclear if that will blunt ageism.
Holmes said Radio 2 legend 72-year-old Ken Bruce's (pictured) decision to follow Steve Wright, Paul O'Grady and Vanessa Feltz out of the BBC highlights its ageism issues.
Jane says that ageism starts when we’re just children.
She’s an amazing symbol of ageism,” she said.
The event featured Surf Coast Shire Mayor Liz Pattison signing the EveryAGE Counts Pledge on behalf of the council to help tackle ageism.
The key finding of the study is that gendered ageism comes out in the context of work-related bullying only, and the group affected most is women in their mid-40s.
Though ageism is pushed to the back burner when it comes to social issues to address, there are a handful of social strongholds that those of the older age bracket have resonated with, and been able to feel validated through, no matter their age.
Women under 40 in the study saw their experience and credibility dismissed because of their age, while women between 40 and 60 ― what the study considered middle age ― continued to experience gendered ageism, too.
A mysterious service, though, offers her the ability to change into a younger twin (Margaret Qualley) – so long as she doesn’t remain so for too long. seems sure to go down as a classic satire of Hollywood ageism and youth obsession.
As far as the odds go I think a little recency bias and a little ageism might be working in Brown’s favor here.
As she makes it clear that she is only looking forward to the next 20 years of her life, she also seems to be combating and ringing the alarm on stereotypes surrounding women in the professional world and ageism.
First of all, he appears as an older brother to the older-looking Sins, challenging the idea of ageism.
In hip-hop, as in so many American industries, ageism isn’t going away.
Mr Bell said ageism is “deeply entrenched and systemic, and it is causing people to miss out on a mentally healthier later life”.
One painful lesson addressed society's ageism toward women.
Sharon claimed that her and Louis were axed from the X Factor because of "ageism".
She said: 'Ageism is real but here I am with my positivity.
The revolution against ageism starts with us — our mindset, actions and unwavering belief in our value as older adults.
Common combinations with ageism
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of ageism 5×
- ageism and 5×
- ageism is 4×
- and ageism 4×
- ageism in 3×
- that ageism 2×
- ageism starts 2×
- gendered ageism 2×
- said ageism 2×
- against ageism 2×