as in ancient
dating or surviving from the distant past
age-old customs and beliefs
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Recent Examples of age-old
In the early 1980s, in the full flush of revolutionary ardor and against an age-old enemy who had attacked them without provocation, the Iranian people and armed forces fought and suffered for their country.
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Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
And the matter of the cataloguing itself launches Clemence’s personal crusade against that age-old difference of value applied to men’s and women’s stories.
—Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
That’s understandable, since the misogynistic toxicity women deal with has age-old ramifications.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
Set about five minutes in the future, Anima revolves around the possibilities of virtual reality and is, at its essence, a story of more age-old concerns — namely, the parent-child bond and the transcendent power of music.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
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Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
And the matter of the cataloguing itself launches Clemence’s personal crusade against that age-old difference of value applied to men’s and women’s stories.
—Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
That’s understandable, since the misogynistic toxicity women deal with has age-old ramifications.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
Set about five minutes in the future, Anima revolves around the possibilities of virtual reality and is, at its essence, a story of more age-old concerns — namely, the parent-child bond and the transcendent power of music.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for age-old
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The resort is built on the site of an ancient Hawaiian fishing village and during development, an historic Hawaiian trail and several anchialine pools were found.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Apr. 2026
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Scientists think dogs descended from an ancient population of gray wolves somewhere in Europe or Asia.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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The Swedish firm Ulf Mejergren even submitted a plan for topping the venerable structure with a giant cross-shaped swimming pool (which, if nothing else, would presumably minimize future fire risk).—
David A. Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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These venerable Swiss houses represent peak legacy watchmaking, and their most expensive and rarest pieces tend to be deliciously complicated.—
Adam Erace,
Fortune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Since 2023, a Sasquatch figure — similar to the one in the old Jack Link’s Beef Jerky ads — has appeared atop the Royals Hall of Fame in left field after Pasquantino reaches base.—
PJ Green
April 8,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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Not yet able to buy an alcoholic drink, Knueppel is only 20 years old.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
8 Apr. 2026
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He was born in Oxford and raised in a village outside Salisbury, a medieval city not far from Stonehenge.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2026
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Whitacre wrote the choral work, originally commissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and recorded in 2020, using a text by his friend, poet and medieval history professor Charles Anthony Silvestri, on the faculty at Washburn University.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
4 Apr. 2026
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