as in traditional
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
an old-line professor who still taught as if it were 1930
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Recent Examples of old-line
There were old-line Whigs who preferred some sort of compromise, and in the upper South, there were those who thought the Union was indivisible.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
And for the first time, top Wall Street banks weren’t just attracting WASP or old-line German Jewish men with family ties to banking, the historic mainstays of the finance world.
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Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
The larger, at 31 Pratt, is the former headquarters of Society for Savings, an old-line bank whose roots stretched back to 1819.
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Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2026
Under this scenario, the public models will start to look like old-line enterprise software companies, taking in proprietary data, fine-tuning a version of their public model to be private, and then running that model for the customer.
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Forrester,
Forbes.com,
20 Mar. 2026
These firms had been the envy of the old-line investment banking houses.
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Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
More practically, people on Netflix’s side might say that further industry consolidation is inevitable, given changing consumer habits and shifting business models for old-line media companies.
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Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
5 Dec. 2025
That has included a growing number of tech and IT firms taking their place, pushing off the likes of print publishers and old-line industrial companies in the process.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
And for the first time, top Wall Street banks weren’t just attracting WASP or old-line German Jewish men with family ties to banking, the historic mainstays of the finance world.
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Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
The larger, at 31 Pratt, is the former headquarters of Society for Savings, an old-line bank whose roots stretched back to 1819.
—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
9 Apr. 2026
Under this scenario, the public models will start to look like old-line enterprise software companies, taking in proprietary data, fine-tuning a version of their public model to be private, and then running that model for the customer.
—
Forrester,
Forbes.com,
20 Mar. 2026
These firms had been the envy of the old-line investment banking houses.
—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2026
More practically, people on Netflix’s side might say that further industry consolidation is inevitable, given changing consumer habits and shifting business models for old-line media companies.
—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
5 Dec. 2025
That has included a growing number of tech and IT firms taking their place, pushing off the likes of print publishers and old-line industrial companies in the process.
—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for old-line
Adjective
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AerAware departs from traditional head-up displays and instead equips both pilots with a dual wearable system that delivers the same information to each cockpit seat.
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Inspired by the traditional Japanese spinning top beigoma (hence BEY-blade), the toy line first became a hit when it was debuted by toymaker Takara in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Adjective
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Texas is on the verge of mandating more than 5 million of its public school students to study Bible stories, as the state emerges as a leader in a national conservative effort to infuse Christian teachings into American classrooms.
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Lee raised his target from 7,700 as stronger corporate earnings offset a more conservative valuation outlook.
Adjective
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Rodriguez almost played as an auxiliary right-back instead of an orthodox right-winger, dropping deep and dictating play.
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In an age of intelligent machines, who gets to decide what is orthodox remains one of the most important questions a free society can ask.
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