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
But the art of physical scorekeeping isn’t just for old-timers.
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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
The housing tide is shifting, and for now, the edge has gone to the stodgy old-timers.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 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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Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 24 Apr. 2026
The housing tide is shifting, and for now, the edge has gone to the stodgy old-timers.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 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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Appleberry was arraigned May 27 in Placer Superior Court, charged with causing injury to an elder or dependent adult, battery causing serious bodily injury, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury and battery against an emergency worker.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
8 June 2026
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The workforce’s youngest cohort has been labeled lazy, entitled, and unrelentingly pessimistic by their elders.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
8 June 2026
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In goal, the team has brought back veteran goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, who allowed just three goals in the three games in Qatar.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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Cabrera is a veteran of both the MPWW and the Minnesota carceral system, and joins Lost Kite as a multimedia editor.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Enough with the oldsters, what about those kids?—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
4 June 2026
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With each passing day, its oldster cast — including Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, and Geena Davis — is closer to the grave.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
31 May 2026
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Her adults never quite grow up, only older.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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All nine victims were adults and none of their injuries were considered life-threatening, according to police.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 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 13 Jun. 2026.
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