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Recent Examples of old hat
But the stories of wild tours, drug use and the like are strictly old hat.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 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
This is going to get to be old hat quickly at the current rate, but Talanoa Hufanga makes his presence felt daily.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2025
Maybe you were born and raised here in the Queen City, but your social routine seems like old hat.
—Katie Black, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 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
This is going to get to be old hat quickly at the current rate, but Talanoa Hufanga makes his presence felt daily.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2025
Maybe you were born and raised here in the Queen City, but your social routine seems like old hat.
—Katie Black, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for old hat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for old hat
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And so our friendship was born, and grew from there over weeks and then months of talking about authorial voice, the politics of publishing, the crushing despair of our historical moment, and how long should a chapter be, anyway?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Kim explores social and historical themes including modernization, militarism, and migration through a practice encompassing sound, video, and installation art.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Public approval of Congress is near historic lows, and polling shows that many voters believe professional politicians are self-interested and out of touch.—
Jeff Harden,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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The designer and her team excel at highlighting and restoring the original detail of historic residences and adding a sense of patina to new homes.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Until Uber and Lyft arrived, ride-seekers were reliant on outmoded taxicab operations.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
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
Adjective
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The United States is not the first country to transition away from small denomination coins or discontinue out-of-date coins.—
Ken Sweet,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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The warrior ethos of The Iliad is out-of-date in our age of human rights, as is the natural philosophy of Aristotle.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But that feels like a tired, outdated characterisation.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2025
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Old Magazines and Newspapers Set the mood for guests who are hanging around the living room by finally recycling, donating, or archiving your spring and summer magazines or any outdated newspapers.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Current challenges Building Electric Road Systems (ERS) is significantly more expensive than traditional highway construction.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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Some suggest this is because climate change is interfering with the flowering and pollination of some of the animals’ traditional sources of food.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Fiction back in the olden days.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 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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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 Nov. 2025.
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