1
as in elder
a person of advanced years
a group of old-timers playing shuffleboard
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as in veteran
a person with long experience in a specified area
old-timers in the fishing industry couldn't remember a time when catches were so low
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Recent Examples of old-timer
The housing tide is shifting, and for now, the edge has gone to the stodgy old-timers.
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
In the last few months, six people have moved into the town, most of them relatives of the old-timers.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Apollo's old-timers are heartened that the 43-year-old Isaacman is accelerating the pace of Artemis launches to more closely match Apollo's speed and safety record.
—Arkansas Online, 31 Mar. 2026
Yet many of the old-timers and young tech workers who live here seem to have accepted the coming changes as an unavoidable reality of California’s deepening housing crisis.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
In the last few months, six people have moved into the town, most of them relatives of the old-timers.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Apollo's old-timers are heartened that the 43-year-old Isaacman is accelerating the pace of Artemis launches to more closely match Apollo's speed and safety record.
—Arkansas Online, 31 Mar. 2026
Yet many of the old-timers and young tech workers who live here seem to have accepted the coming changes as an unavoidable reality of California’s deepening housing crisis.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old-timer
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Dern replaced Carter as some sort of actress perhaps resenting her elder-stateswoman status.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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For Obery Hendricks, an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who teaches religion at Columbia University, the dissonance is both aesthetic and religious.—
Jason DeRose,
NPR,
26 May 2026
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Now a member of the Indiana Fever, the veteran big still has love for the Golden State organization.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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CreatiVets, the nonprofit behind the event, works with veterans struggling with trauma and the difficult transition to civilian life by pairing them with professional songwriters and artists.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
28 May 2026
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Most oldsters like myself still will probably find revisiting the piece enjoyable.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Those devoted to the Charli cause will no doubt get more out of the film than an out-of-touch oldster like myself ever could.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Tru by Hilton has a modern feel with a low price point, and the rooms are just the right size for two adults.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
25 May 2026
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The scam that starts with a search of your name can quickly turn into a call to an elderly parent or a text to an adult child.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 May 2026
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Raya Elfadel Kheirbek is a professor of medicine and chief of the division of palliative medicine and geriatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.—
Raya Elfadel Kheirbek,
Washington Post,
17 May 2026
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What was shocking was that searches for novels about geriatrics period almost exclusively turned up women not very much older.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
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The exhibit features several dozen dinosaur animatronics that fully loom and roar, and a virtual aquarium stocked with swimming ancients.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
20 May 2026
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Sitting alone among these ancients can be a profound experience.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Old-timer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old-timer. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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