: something or someone not new or exciting any more
That band is old news.
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This exchange between the two women, filmed a good while back, is definitely juicy, but unfortunately, pretty old news.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2026 Years after a routine restructuring, an old news article about the event remained one of the company’s top search results.—
Victoria Marshall,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2026 If the naked dress is old news, this might be its even more daring successor.—
Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
21 Aug. 2026 Archival materials, including old news clippings and documents, displayed alongside the photographs document decades of elevator failures and resident complaints.—
Reginald David,
Hartford Courant,
19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for old news