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hackney

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verb

as in to overuse
to use so much as to make less appealing advertisers have hackneyed the word "revolutionary" so much that it now just means that a product is new

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hackney

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noun

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Recent Examples of hackney
Adjective
Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage. Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023 Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police. Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Noun
Director Zach Braff runs in the opposite direction of these stereotypes and all other things hackneyed, crafting an enjoyable time at the movies. Peter Hartlaub, Orange County Register, 6 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hackney
Verb
  • Annabelle has been in so many movies now, to the point of being overused (the real doll has even been suspected of paranormal activity recently).
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The redemption story is overused in sports, but Anisimova coming back from a double-bagel Wimbledon final defeat against Iga Świątek to beat the same player a couple of months later was extraordinary.
    The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.
    Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Noun
  • Participants can pay $20 for a 20-ticket activity and ride voucher that can be redeemed for amusement rides, the giant slide, kiddie bumper boats, make your own scarecrow, a pig slide, pony rides and pumpkin bowling.
    Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • These include the Plume loafers, the Easy tote bag in leather and pony hair, as well as the Retro Crest sneakers and mountain-style boots.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Several leaders described the pressure of being both highly visible and easily stereotyped.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • At the time, Latinos were often cast in stereotyped roles with heavy accents and largely denied the opportunity to direct features.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • For decades, the profession has been stereotyped as a world of calculators and spreadsheets, quietly humming in the background of business.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But while working mom and trad wife stereotypes reign online and in popular culture, many moms fall somewhere in between those two tropes.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • The camel can travel incredibly far on minimal resources, survive under the harshest conditions, and, when needed, run surprisingly fast - in the long run even outpacing the finest racehorse.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • To watch Marvin Mims Jr. glide, his trainer Margin Hooks suggests, is to watch a racehorse.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Reed got her first gig at Cataloochee at the age of 19 in 1996 and has never tired of the work.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Manning’s inefficiency was on full display, and the Longhorns faithful grew tired of it during the first half.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Sep. 2025

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