Thesaurus results for OLD COUNTRY

old country

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as in country

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Recent Examples of old country At least two of those questions now rest at the center of a $5 million defamation lawsuit filed late last month by the 27-year-old country singer against a right-wing blowhard who accused her of being in cahoots with the Israeli intelligence service. —

Joseph Bullmore, Air Mail, 22 Nov. 2025 Director Kim Jee-woon uses every trick in the haunted-house book when spinning the tale of two vulnerable sisters, their neglectful father, and their evil stepmother, all of whom are trapped together in a shabby (but beautifully filmed) old country house. —

Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025 By way of comparison, the 82-year-old country singer Lee Greenwood, whom Speaker Johnson floated as a viable replacement candidate for the Super Bowl headliner gig, has racked up 96 million streams on the service. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025 More than a thousand country music fans have signed a petition demanding that the NFL replace the Puerto Rican entertainer with 73-year-old country legend George Strait, a choice as likely as Engelbert Humperdinck. —

Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for old country

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But invading the second biggest country in Europe, after Russia itself, would be a potentially catastrophic prospect which would, surely, give a cold strategist like Putin pause for thought.

— Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 21 Feb. 2026
The company is one of many benefiting from a ramp up in military spending in many countries.

— Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026