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Recent Examples of old hat
Selling out a concert on one of the hottest, stickiest nights of the summer is old hat for Whiskey Myers.
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Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
The crocodile tears come easy for Drews, as these kinds of scenes are practically old hat by now.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Many business leaders continue to practice old hat tricks from the dark ages.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Men were letting their hair grow past their shoulders, women were tying theirs in bandannas, and amid the weed and the cobblestones, the prim full skirts of the 1950s were laughably old hat.
—Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
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Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
The crocodile tears come easy for Drews, as these kinds of scenes are practically old hat by now.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
Many business leaders continue to practice old hat tricks from the dark ages.
—Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Men were letting their hair grow past their shoulders, women were tying theirs in bandannas, and amid the weed and the cobblestones, the prim full skirts of the 1950s were laughably old hat.
—Air Mail, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old hat
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As opposed to tragedy’s narrative arc of historical fate, tragicomedy unfolds in an infinite present.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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Liberal clergy abandoned certain tenets of Christian orthodoxy—the Virgin Birth, Christ’s miracles—for a more literary and historical approach to the Bible.—
Michael Luo,
New Yorker,
14 June 2026
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Metal barricades surrounded Madison Square Garden and police checkpoints were up around Penn Station as city officials scrambled to prevent a repeat of Wednesday night’s chaos, when dozens of fans were taken into custody after the Knicks’ historic comeback.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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Smith helped catalyze the 49ers’ historic turnaround during his rookie season in 2011 thanks to his ability to disrupt quarterbacks.—
Michael McGough,
Sacbee.com,
14 June 2026
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Today, some of the most beloved musicals of the American theater can sometimes seem outmoded and vaguely inappropriate, since society’s standards have changed radically in the last 60 years.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
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But then, the fear that AI could render swaths of the software trade outmoded moved a wave of the savings-for-retirement crowd to demand their money back.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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Preckwinkle's team first tackled the out-of-date property tax system by hiring Tyler Technologies under a $30 million dollar contract to upgrade the county's property tax system.—
Chris Tye,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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Charles also had one out-of-date license to operate a school bus at the time of the incident, investigators stated previously.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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An inspection can reveal issues that weren’t visible during the initial estimate, such as outdated writing or drainage issues.—
Kat Tretina,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
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Philanthropy and nonprofit work are uniquely positioned to meet that need, but many young people still believe an outdated narrative about nonprofit work.—
Dr. Milpha Blamo,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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The States has never been a traditional soccer-loving country, but Tuesday’s turnout provided more evidence there is a committed and passionate fanbase there.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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Guests can choose from traditional rooms or spacious one- or two-bedroom suites, some of which have balconies and two-way gas fireplaces.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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Folk saints fill a void in a largely Catholic country where most saints, many with olden European roots, don’t always resonate.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
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In the olden days, when the United States did summit meetings with the Soviet Union, there was a fundamental reason for that, which is, one of the things that the United States wanted from the Soviet Union was arms control.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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Setting recent works among older ones is an effective element of LACMA’s overall plan to shed outworn hierarchies.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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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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“Old hat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20hat. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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