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Recent Examples of olden
One of the world’s largest exhibitions of olden literature is gathering more than a hundred booksellers from across the globe to share their choicest wares — rare tomes, illustrations, maps, historical documents and random ephemera guaranteed to level-up your bookshelf and walls.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
Ice over moving water, like rivers and creeks, is never safe, even though people used to do it all the time in the olden days.
—Ray Petelin, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
Four years after the trade, Williams won a World Series with the Sox, and the Barry-Berry saga became a minor footnote in his career, mentioned only whenever the Sox beat writers gather together to trade stories about the olden days.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
In the olden days, celebs would wear sunglasses inside the show — more to hide their clear enjoyment of the libations than to look cool.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2026
Ice over moving water, like rivers and creeks, is never safe, even though people used to do it all the time in the olden days.
—Ray Petelin, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2026
Four years after the trade, Williams won a World Series with the Sox, and the Barry-Berry saga became a minor footnote in his career, mentioned only whenever the Sox beat writers gather together to trade stories about the olden days.
—Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2026
In the olden days, celebs would wear sunglasses inside the show — more to hide their clear enjoyment of the libations than to look cool.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN Money, 12 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for olden
Adjective
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As opposed to tragedy’s narrative arc of historical fate, tragicomedy unfolds in an infinite present.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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Meanwhile, top Wall Street firms have projected future stock market gains will fall short of historical averages.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
14 June 2026
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The States has never been a traditional soccer-loving country, but Tuesday’s turnout provided more evidence there is a committed and passionate fanbase there.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
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The nine-time Grammy winner is surrounded by a collection of lion figurines, guitars, traditional hand drums and a piano.—
Kailyn Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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The decision came after Tim Askin, a city historic preservation planner, told the commission the plans didn't meet its historic restoration standards.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
8 Dec. 2025
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For Indonesian conservationists, Rio’s arrival represents a historic achievement.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
8 Dec. 2025
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While that edict seems antiquated with the realities of the House settlement, the settlement doesn’t nullify or supersede appellate precedent.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
10 June 2026
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At the outset, the tech companies operated in a legal space that the country’s antiquated commercial code had not yet mapped.—
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin,
The Atlantic,
1 June 2026
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Many people now fear that AI will make a huge number of careers obsolete.—
Rogé Karma,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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Its older and obsolete buildings have for years been losing office tenants to sleek new skyscrapers that popped up to the west along the Chicago River or in Fulton Market.—
Brian J. Rogal,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
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Nearly 60 years later, El Sombrero remains a classic old-time restaurant, almost like a little museum of Tex-Mex food on the edge of the north Fort Worth suburb.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 June 2026
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Despite his badass Mandalorian bounty hunter credentials, Djarin proves refreshingly vulnerable, with various bad guys getting the better of him so often the film begins to resemble one of those old-time movie serials whose installments always ended with a cliffhanger.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2026
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To rekindle Indigenous economies, tribes must be liberated from the outmoded constraints on their sovereignty.—
Adam Crepelle,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Nov. 2025
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The film’s eagerness to hinge so much of its plot on AI — evolving another prescient detail of King’s text into the present — creates an unavoidable tension with the outmoded production demands of Killian’s show, a tension that Brolin is asked to wave away with a single line of dialogue.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
11 Nov. 2025
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Speaking this week at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, Colorado, a panel of industry experts argued that the future of work cannot merely be about layering expensive tools onto outdated processes.—
Sebastian Herrera,
Fortune,
11 June 2026
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Don't wait for precision and default to outdated definitions of success.—
Mustafa Abdelmonem,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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“Olden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/olden. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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