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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
Adjective
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Passover is not about a historical event but about a metaphoric explication of an ideal.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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And there are historical parallels.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar called on Iran and the United States to keep their commitment to maintain a ceasefire, after both countries ended historic face-to-face talks without an agreement.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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The astronauts snapped thousands of photos during their historic pass around the moon, shot video and recorded their personal observations to give researchers insights based on the color sensitivity of the human eye.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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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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Jones’s novels derive much of their richness from her striking capacity to use literary and cultural tropes that may seem outmoded to new ends.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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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The second source confirmed that out-of-date intelligence appears to have been used.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Granny sandals might once have been seen as outdated or too cozy to be worn outside the home.—
Alex Sales,
Glamour,
9 Apr. 2026
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While many of the capital city’s outdated downtown office buildings have seen their values trickle down, the value of industrial land is going up more than any other land use category in the city this year.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported two separate Israeli strikes on two vehicles, one in the seafront town of Saadiyat and another on a coastal highway in neighboring Jiyeh, around 12 miles south of Beirut and outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.—
Tucker Reals,
CBS News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Last December, the airline launched service between Van Nuys Airport (VNY) in Los Angeles and Kahului Airport (OGG) in Maui, offering a semi-private experience that sits somewhere between commercial first class and a traditional private jet.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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In the olden days, a stand-up comedy fan might think to watch two or three specials a year.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
30 Mar. 2026
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In olden days, Kurents were offered pork sausages, eggs and wine at doorsteps, all to replenish their energy and court good luck.—
Norma Meyer,
Oc Register,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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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 16 Apr. 2026.
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