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Recent Examples of old hat
This sort of performance is old hat for American women.
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Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 June 2025
June 14 The Music of John Williams with the Colorado Symphony
Live orchestral scores set to film (or films) are old hat, but the choice of venue here shows the enduring power of John Williams’ music.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2025
All that gnashing and suckling is old hat — as old as the burgundy fedora Jordan slips on when playing the more jovial of these brothers in arms.
—A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
Being at the Oscars is old hat for Elton, but still a new experience for you, Brandi.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
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Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 June 2025
June 14 The Music of John Williams with the Colorado Symphony
Live orchestral scores set to film (or films) are old hat, but the choice of venue here shows the enduring power of John Williams’ music.
—John Wenzel, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2025
All that gnashing and suckling is old hat — as old as the burgundy fedora Jordan slips on when playing the more jovial of these brothers in arms.
—A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025
Being at the Oscars is old hat for Elton, but still a new experience for you, Brandi.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old hat
Adjective
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Kartal, who was born in 2001, was wearing a boxy outfit inspired by the nineties, one of her favorite historical periods.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
12 July 2025
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Nearly every episode of this podcast from the Washington Post is under 10 minutes, delivering a digestible overview of an obscure or long-forgotten historical episode.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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And a historic aristocratic club turned chic boutique hotel is the place to stay.—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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And, in contrast, the percentage holding a positive view of immigration has soared to a historic high.—
Brendan Rascius
July 11,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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The problem is worsened by the broken and outmoded state of the Oscars’ Best International Feature category, which lets foreign governments handpick their own submissions and launder their public images.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
25 June 2025
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Slow and costly interconnection processes and outmoded grid planning can prevent meaningful progress.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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Oftentimes, on-sale, co-op, or conservation-organization seed are actually out-of-date seed that can’t be sold at full price.—
Josh Honeycutt,
Outdoor Life,
26 June 2025
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Worse, even knowledge that’s current when written can immediately start to go stale and out-of-date as the business evolves.—
Kevin Novak,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Failing to pass the GENIUS act would allow rival jurisdictions to continue to win the market while the U.S. economy runs on outdated technology.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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But on this day, anything seemed possible, that a small group of Indians and their allies could persuade the world’s richest man at the time to see the value in removing the four outdated dams.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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An additional 18 pot still whiskeys won Gold, demonstrating that Ireland’s most traditional whiskey style continues to elevate the standards for flavor, complexity, and craftsmanship.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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The left-handed bat seems to have a more traditional torpedo shape.—
Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
15 July 2025
Adjective
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Whilst the revels did flourish, Freeman labored upon his own grand design — the fair Castle Gwynn, a stone bastion of olden style, rising proudly across from the fields of festivity in Arrington.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 May 2025
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In the olden days, before streaming, the end of May would mark a critical period in which studios would order new shows.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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With his understanding of and affection for the hardy inhabitants of the mountainous American West, Walker-Silverman brings a new and tender radiance to the idea of regional filmmaking, along with an awareness of outworn stereotypes.—
Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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This was not a forgone conclusion at the time; indeed, during the 1930s, democracy was widely viewed as an outworn political form.—
Taeku Lee,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Aug. 2013
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