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Recent Examples of old hat
Weighing cars is easy, and timing them in pit stops is old hat, too.
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ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
The pace of morning preparation behind the scenes was old hat to me.
—Harriette Cole, Flow Space, 3 June 2025
This sort of performance is old hat for American women.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 June 2025
College football championships are old hat for Nike, as the partner of recent champions Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, LSU and Michigan.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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ArsTechnica, 11 June 2025
The pace of morning preparation behind the scenes was old hat to me.
—Harriette Cole, Flow Space, 3 June 2025
This sort of performance is old hat for American women.
—Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 June 2025
College football championships are old hat for Nike, as the partner of recent champions Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, LSU and Michigan.
—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old hat
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Experience360 includes the museum’s popular holograms of survivors, immersive 360-degree films, as well as historical photographs and artifacts.—
Kelly Haramis,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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In northern Taipei, the Taiwanese capital, the island's National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine is a reminder of these clashing historical narratives.—
Jan Camenzind Broomby,
NPR,
2 Sep. 2025
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Once a 19th-century military outpost, Fort Robinson now combines historic sites with miles of hiking and horseback trails.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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The historic new daytime drama Beyond the Gates has officially set its second crossover with one of its CBS sister series, and its first from The Bold and the Beautiful.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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This has been attributed in part to surging loads from artificial intelligence data centers, as well as outmoded energy infrastructure.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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For years, military theorists and political scientists have argued that airpower is overrated and, in some ways, outmoded.—
DAVID A. DEPTULA,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Aug. 2025
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As a result, hundreds of the museum’s videos regarding items in the collection and on educational topics that were removed from YouTube in January 2023 are being restored to the streaming service after being reorganized, with out-of-date material removed.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
22 Aug. 2025
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This underinformed and out-of-date article could have offered a good-faith exploration of obsessive-compulsive disorder.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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The developer went on to raze DeLuise’s outdated 1950s house and replace it with the modern mansion now on the market.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
6 Sep. 2025
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The research finds that widening skills gaps are becoming barriers to growth, compounded by outdated approaches to talent development.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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This more traditional system is where Tottenham have ended up.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, identity categories have become more fluid, and traditional sources of authority — religion, education, government — are more likely to be contested or distrusted.—
Christopher P. Scheitle,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
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Unlike in the less-than-golden olden days, people cannot stuff ballot boxes or toss them into the river because ballots are tracked and voters are notified when their vote is cast.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
28 Aug. 2025
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In the olden days, a journalist might have pressed Sinner, hopeful of getting that first quote.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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Perhaps that’s the legacy of outworn stereotypes about corruption or a lack of the type of political will that’s brought more rapid changes to corporate governance and sustainable investing standards in, for example, some Nordic countries.—
Cassie Werber,
Quartz,
7 June 2022
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This colossal tactical error has been compounded by the lingering centrist deference to a long-outworn image of the Supreme Court as a grand impartial arbiter of constitutional outcomes.—
Chris Lehmann,
The New Republic,
10 Feb. 2022
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“Old hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20hat. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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